Nice thoughts. In 2010 and beyond, IMHO, we need the vigorous marketing moves of PC software initiators who changed the way the common man works. Unfortunately they went on monopolising things and the original goodwill broke.
Open Source needs companies/groups which can provide the same service and support. The customer has to do nothing with the ethics of software but he needs his job done well. I have met n number of people and they simply said that ethical way of work may be defined for every profession and if software also has some, its nice but its not the customer's necessity. A customer needs prompt service and support which an open source ecosystem can provide only when young people form companies to work in this area. Nokia doing open source is a different thing w.r.t. what you talk here. Their open source is a strategic product support decision to make it better butter. Startups doing FOSS means earning bread. We need many more Narendra Sisodias to make this happen. He left his MNC job to do FOSS. I wish he does well and come up with a successful revenue model as example for other youngsters to follow. Mohit Singh ------------------ Today's Imagination is Tomorrow's Innovation Today's Innovation is Tomorrow's Common Sense Today's Common Sense is Tomorrow's Nonsense _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
