Hi all, Interesting discussion. You might want to have a look at Project Caroline. Its an open platform which will let anyone host their own SaaS platform, does not lock-in into any particular technology or language or vendor, its source code is completely open and follows open standards.
http://research.sun.com/projects/caroline/ On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Anupam Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > What I am disagreeing is with the FOSS world not attempting to even > > touch the technology because the closed source business model is the > > only one we see. The technology is really attractive, and there is no > > doubt that if the right FOSS business model is found, it would benefit > > a lot of people without compromising the software freedom that we have > > today. > > Exactly. > > Maybe opening up the data storage and exchange formats is part of the > key. For example, gmail allows pop/smtp access, which means that your > data is not be locked inside the gmail "jail", even if the software is > not free. Does that make it more acceptable than, say, hotmail? > > -- Anupam > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > -- Angad Singh http://blogs.sun.com/angad Sun Campus Ambassador Tech Lead _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
