My wife Beatrice and I are traveling around the US throughout May and
June before we go to South America to scout out places to live. We just
bought a 1982 Volkswagen Vanagon, so we're providing our own sleeping
space; any silklisters in the US who might be interested in a visit?
Drop me an email,
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/103/essay-resources.html
Resources: The Revolution Begins
Businesses large and small are finally seeing the green light. It isn't
just conscience--or all those nice young people in Guatemalan
sweaters--that's doing the trick. It's the sight of all that money.
> Biju Chacko wrote:
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> > However, that finally does imply that one cannot blindly point at
> > these cases and say that they are major wins for open source. They're
> > good, but they aren't that significant in the greater scheme of
> > things. Certainly nothing for the /. crowd to go beserk abou
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> However, that finally does imply that one cannot blindly point at
> these cases and say that they are major wins for open source. They're
> good, but they aren't that significant in the greater scheme of
> things. Certainly nothin
On 10/04/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
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> > The large 'enterprise' deals are rarely done on the strength of rah-rah
> > FLOSS. At the end of the day the rock bottom price gets the deal. The
> > important point is that do they return back t
On 10/04/06, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Biju Chacko wrote:
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> > Sounds impressive. But I wonder how much of a benefit these companies
> > derive from Open Source. If you look at how they handle it and how the
> > deals w
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
The large 'enterprise' deals are rarely done on the strength of rah-rah
FLOSS. At the end of the day the rock bottom price gets the deal. The
important point is that do they return back to Open Source and do they
also foresee Open Source playing a part in some futu
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> Sounds impressive. But I wonder how much of a benefit these companies
> derive from Open Source. If you look at how they handle it and how the
> deals were structured, all they're getting is cheaper software.
The large 'enterpris
On 10-Apr-06, at 8:51 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
Sounds impressive. But I wonder how much of a benefit these companies
derive from Open Source. If you look at how they handle it and how the
deals were structured, all they're getting is cheaper software.
I'm starting to suspect that cheaper softwar
