Let's not compute the amount of money we have to put up, take the example of debian, they don't hire programmers to support their distro, I'm not really sure if they have an office space for an overhead, maybe they're just paying for the bandwidth, what I'm trying to say here is, maybe DOST can also create their own distro, with support of Filipino contributors, if the Americans and the europeans can do it, i believe that we can do it too. I believe there is an overflowing talents here in the Philippines, if we only knew how to take advantage of it.
This may sound idealistic, but small things like FSF, begins from it. On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 10:01, ian sison (mailing list) wrote: > > On 24 Jun 2003, Allan Cacdac wrote: > > > > > Our distro is also based on RedHat.Though I believe that creating the > > > distro from scratch is benefitial and as Lito said, more reputable and > > > add more prestige, but it would take much longer time and more staff to > > > develop and maintain including support. This is not impossible to happen > > > but it's more of a challenge for us Filipinos. > > Really? All for the sake of "Prestige and Proving the Filipino can do > it"? Let me see, how much will it cost a company to create, and maintain > its very own linux distribution annually? Take into account overhead, > salaries, distribution and maintenance costs. > > No, better yet, let's just go with salaries. > > Let's just say you hire 10 senior programmers at 50T a month, that's 500T > a month overhead for salaries, that's 6M a year. Put that figure up > against the cost of hiring 50-75% less people just to modify and support > an existing distribution to suit one's objectives (BAYANIHAN LINUX STYLE). > So you are in excess of 3M pesos if you 'DID IT YOURSELF SO YOU CAN BE > PROUD OF IT'. > > How do you explain this now to the orphanages and charitable institutions > which could have benefited greatly from a 3M donation? Or maybe, how do > you explain the fact that you can't reach as many people as you could have > because you spent so much money on redoing the technology which others are > already doing for free? > > Let's remove the nationalism from this issue and deal with it logically > and practically. It would bring us more benefits and in the end we would > have more resources to spread the open source word around. > > > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie -- Lito A. Lampitoc :http://www.codewan.com.ph Systems & Network Administrator :Countrywide Devt. Wide Area Network -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
