Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-30 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Sagar Belure said on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:58:06PM +0530,: Of course, even if you are working for Free and Open source projects, there has to be some income. It is free as in freedom; freedom comes at a price; there are people like Canonical, IBM, and individual users like me who are

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-30 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Sagar Belure sagar.bel...@gmail.comwrote: Snip Maybe I'm asking another noob question. But, wanted to know, how the big companies gain profit who run Free and Open Source project like Mozilla, Apache, etc. Of course, even if you are working for Free and Open

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-30 Thread kamakshaiah m
Dear friend, First we need to know what is this term Free means, for you know I Installed Linux, sorry GNU/Linux many times (of course not only on my computer but also on others), this idea of Freedom is not totally what it means... You know, think about time you spend upon

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-30 Thread Sahil Dave
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:02 AM, ashish gupta ashish.hc...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I have install Ubuntu 10.10 new version .before couple of month .it was working fine till now. but last night when i open my laptop Keyboard and mouse is not working . when i used external mouse its worked .i

[ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-29 Thread Sagar Belure
Hi all, Maybe I'm asking another noob question. But, wanted to know, how the big companies gain profit who run Free and Open Source project like Mozilla, Apache, etc. Of course, even if you are working for Free and Open source projects, there has to be some income. I'm hoping for the varieties

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-29 Thread vikas.v.i...@gmail.com
I think the crux of FOSS is intrinsic motivation.People need to actually program design and make wonderful software/applications.It is just like what an artist feels about his art.And no where can you get the freedom to choose a technology domain and what ever but open source projects. --vikas

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-29 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Sagar Belure sagar.bel...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Maybe I'm asking another noob question. But, wanted to know, how the big companies gain profit who run Free and Open Source project like Mozilla, Apache, etc. Of course, even if you are working for Free and

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-29 Thread Gaurav Paliwal
Maybe I'm asking another noob question. But, wanted to know, how the big companies gain profit who run Free and Open Source project like Mozilla, Apache, etc. Of course, even if you are working for Free and Open source projects, there has to be some income. See this ilugd thread :

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-29 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Sagar Belure sagar.bel...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Maybe I'm asking another noob question. But, wanted to know, how the big companies gain profit who run Free and Open

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-29 Thread Sagar Belure
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Gaurav Paliwal gaurav.paliwal1...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I'm asking another noob question. But, wanted to know, how the big companies gain profit who run Free and Open Source project like Mozilla, Apache, etc. Of course, even if you are working for Free and

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-29 Thread Sagar Belure
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Sagar Belure sagar.bel...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Maybe I'm asking another noob question. But,

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-29 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sagar Belure writes: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: [...] People have addressed such issues much better than I could, but perhaps the best-established FOSS business model is making money from support.

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-29 Thread Sagar Belure
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Ashish SHUKLA ashish...@lostca.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sagar Belure writes: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: [...] People have addressed such issues much better than I could, but

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-29 Thread ashish gupta
Hi all, I have install Ubuntu 10.10 new version .before couple of month .it was working fine till now. but last night when i open my laptop Keyboard and mouse is not working . when i used external mouse its worked .i faced this problem before also but when i restart my laptop once again .its

Re: [ilugd] FOSS profit

2010-12-29 Thread Partha Dasgupta
Hi, It's a probably related to acpi and the 8042 interrupt controller conflicts. Might work if you edit your grub configuration file . It is /boot/grub/menu.lst on ubuntu and append the following line to the kernel argument. locale=fr_FR i8042.reset NOTE: Add it to the end of the kernel