Hi Well I think its best to sort it out face to face. Anyone who wants to clarify, are mostly welcome to have talk with me anytime tomorrow morning in the college. Iam sure things would be clarified.
Regards. Abhishek --- On Tue, 3/11/09, Siddharth Goyal <[email protected]> wrote: From: Siddharth Goyal <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [csi_nsit] Re: Windows 7 To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 3 November, 2009, 5:56 PM Hey guys How about giving it away for free AFTER end sems? That way no one will need to make any kind of sacrifices :) On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:48 PM, manusheel <manusheel_nsit@ yahoo.co. in> wrote: Sumanta, Thank you for taking time in compiling your feedback on my memo. > I have some thoughts about what Manusheel Sir wrote. > > " it seems that CSI-NSIT is indeed charging much less than what it should > charge." > I think CSI NSIT is charging a lot for something which should be free. Why > would i even pay Rs 200 for something which i should get for free. As I said earlier, this initiative has not happened under my aegis, and I have not been the one calling the shots. So, if you have any questions or concerns, please talk with Bhatia Sir, Aditya, Abhishek, and copy Hemant on that e-mail. My views on this initiative were solely mine as I mentioned earlier. And, I do wish to echo that CSI-NSIT is charging nothing for being the distribution, marketing and publicity partners to this initiative. They should charge much more considering the sacrifice of time and energy by the executive members in the middle of the exams. Not sure, why are they not spending quality time on Data Structures, Analog Electronics, M.D., Power App...5th sem...Algorithms, Networking.. . >I'm not sure Microsoft would be too happy to know that CSI NSIT is selling >their product for Rs 200. Replace the word "selling" by "distribution" and "publicity", and you would not think like this. >Microsoft gives software at low cost to educational institute so >that all the >students have access to the genuine software and not >only those who can pay >money for the software. How does Microsoft distribute? They distribute software through partners. CSI-NSIT is the distribution and publicity partner as told to me by Bhatia Sir today. Rest, please clarify directly. >Why would i pay money when i can download it for "free" from >internet. Sure, Sumanta. This is absolutely fine. If you are happy downloading the package from the internet, please do so. > So my points are1. Is CSI NSIT paying anything to microsoft ?2. If >yes then > how much and if not then why can't it give the software for >free to > students?3. Is CSI NSIT charging for the service ? > Please get the details and dynamics worked out by Bhatia Sir, Aditya, Hemant and Abhishek. As a current/former CSI member, I feel that this is indeed your responsibility. Thank you for raising the questions. > I am not against paying for the software but atleast i should know >why am i > paying. Absolutely. You should know, why you are paying. Good luck with the end sem exams and final year. Regards, Manu > Regards- Sumanta Mandal COE 7th Semester > > > --- On Tue, 3/11/09, manusheel Gupta <manusheel_nsit@ ...> wrote: > > From: manusheel Gupta <manusheel_nsit@ ...> > Subject: [csi_nsit] Windows 7 > To: "csi nsit" <csi_n...@yahoogroup s.com> > Date: Tuesday, 3 November, 2009, 3:00 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear all, > > The initiative discussed was introduced during Hemant's tenure, and came into > full circle in the next batch. So, I didn't know the details of this > initiative before it evolved on this group. > > Over the last 24 hours, I spoke with Bhatia Sir, Aditya, Abhishek and Hemant > to understand the scenario. From what I could gather from the discussions, it > seems that CSI-NSIT is indeed charging much less than what it should charge. > > It seems marketing and distribution costs for Windows costs 10 times higher. > Sure, that might be the case. Reminds me of a close friend, Mary Lou Jepsen > from Pixel Qi. She once told me an interesting insight on the sales of > laptops. She said that the marketing and distribution costs of any normal > laptop accounts for 65-70% of the total costs associated with it. Display > device accounted for less than 25% was an > interesting fact I realized from that discussion. > > And, Microsoft is very happy that CSI-NSIT are helping them reduce the > distribution of pirated versions - a major investment goes in that direction. > So, in my humble opinion, I think that the board might want to scale up the > fees to Rs. 400 or Rs. 500 considering the amount of energy put up by second > year executive board members in the middle of end sems. End sems are very > important, guys. You should get into the ghissu mode now. > > On a separate note, I found the style of discussions very interesting. > Reminds me of the storyline of "Blood Diamond". > > Craig Mundie, hats off to you, friend. You are very smart business guy > indeed.Good luck with Windows 7. Your product has already received enough > publicity on CSI yahoo group :-) > > Regards, > > Manu > > > > > > > Now, send attachments up to 25MB with Yahoo! India Mail. Learn how. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Get your new Email address! > Grab the Email name you've always wanted before someone else does! > http://mail. promotions. yahoo.com/ newdomains/ aa/ > -- regards, Siddharth Goyal | http://www.sidgoyal 1.com CEO, Dulcet Solutions | http://www.dulcetso lutions.com +91-9818666217 From cricket scores to your friends. Try the Yahoo! India Homepage! http://in.yahoo.com/trynew
