> So my question is, what shit are you talking about based in India? Please, Please Enlighten me? I found your first mail rather offensive to begin with, and I find your response even more so now that you've decided to get personal. Clearly you consider yourself very l33t if you choose to address perfect strangers on a mailing list in this manner so I bow to your superior judgement and derisive tone.
I'm not going to continue this conversation beyond this except to point out that I run a company that is making use of approach 5 in a manner that both my accountants and I find quite satisfactory. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Santosh Rajan <santra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Sidu Ponnappa <lorddae...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > You missed > > 4) Found a company to sell services and support around your open source > > product. (MySQL, RedHat, Pentaho) > > > > Great! so what percentage of the worldwide revenue of MySql, redhat, > pentaho > etc etc you own? Next to Zilch! > > > > > > 5) Found a company whose commercial offerings (services/products) you > > popularise by bouncing off the popularity of your open source (37 > Signals, > > Thoughtbot) > > > > > So again the same problem above? > > > > > Does a business model exist around open source? Yes it does (note that > > earning an exceptional salary *is* a business model in my book). Is it > > viable? Yes it is. > > > > I agree. But what money of your so called business model is coming to > India? > Nothing! > > > > > > > What's the problem? > > > > As long as people like you don't see the problem, India will always remain > a second class power in the software world. Do you know that the entire > software exports of India today is only 5% of the total software exports of > the world? Thanks to great people like you, we call ourselves a great > software nation. > Thank you again gentleman. > > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Santosh Rajan <santra...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I have been reading a few threads on this forum, and even participated > in > > > them. However I thought I must write my views on this subject > separately. > > > Also before I start my tirade, I want to make a couple of disclaimers. > > Come > > > to think of it, I should mak e a blog post of this. However since my > > mind > > > was > > > instigated by this subject, on this forum, I only think it is right I > > > should > > > post it here. > > > > > > Disclaimer 1. I am not the best programmer around here. I am sure there > > are > > > many people better than me. > > > Disclaimer 2. I am not an expert on the subject of free Vs paid. > > > > > > Having said the above let me make a few observations on this subject. > > > > > > 1) I have seen a few "immature idiots" who think open source is the way > > to > > > go. Granted, they are good meaning young people, however they need to > > know > > > where they are headed. > > > 2) Then there are the "intellectual ignoranti" who think Open Source is > > the > > > panacea for all "humanities Illness". > > > > > > Let us start with Guido Van Rossum. Where does he work? He works for > > > Google. > > > Brad Fitz the original author of OpenID works for Google. > > > Let me tell you that the above, are only a couple of examples. All the > > > Open > > > Source Guru's of today work for some company or another. Even Linus > > > Torvalds. He worked for a company called Transmeta (Which is no more > > > today). > > > > > > If you take the birthplace of all (most of all) startups today, It is > San > > > Fransisco, and all your beloved Open Source Guru's are either > > > 1) Working for one of those BIG companies based in SF( includes Google) > > > (and > > > a small minority out of SF) > > > 2) The other Guru's are working in a startup based in SF and a small > > > minority other wise. > > > 3)And the rest of the Open source Guru's are writing software in the > > hope > > > that they will be bought over by no (1) or no (2). > > > > > > So my question is, what shit are you talking about based in India? > > Please, > > > Please Enlighten me? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://about.me/santosh.rajan > > > > > > “The *young man* knows the rules but the *old man* knows the > > > exceptions”. *Oliver > > > Wendell Holmes* > > > _______________________________________________ > > > BangPypers mailing list > > > BangPypers@python.org > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > -- > http://about.me/santosh.rajan > > “The *young man* knows the rules but the *old man* knows the > exceptions”. *Oliver > Wendell Holmes* > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
