On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Sidu Ponnappa <lorddae...@gmail.com>wrote:
> You missed > 4) Found a company to sell services and support around your open source > product. (MySQL, RedHat, Pentaho) > Great! so what percentage of the worldwide revenue of MySql, redhat, pentaho etc etc you own? Next to Zilch! > 5) Found a company whose commercial offerings (services/products) you > popularise by bouncing off the popularity of your open source (37 Signals, > Thoughtbot) > So again the same problem above? > Does a business model exist around open source? Yes it does (note that > earning an exceptional salary *is* a business model in my book). Is it > viable? Yes it is. > I agree. But what money of your so called business model is coming to India? Nothing! > > What's the problem? > As long as people like you don't see the problem, India will always remain a second class power in the software world. Do you know that the entire software exports of India today is only 5% of the total software exports of the world? Thanks to great people like you, we call ourselves a great software nation. Thank you again gentleman. > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Santosh Rajan <santra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I have been reading a few threads on this forum, and even participated in > > them. However I thought I must write my views on this subject separately. > > Also before I start my tirade, I want to make a couple of disclaimers. > Come > > to think of it, I should mak e a blog post of this. However since my > mind > > was > > instigated by this subject, on this forum, I only think it is right I > > should > > post it here. > > > > Disclaimer 1. I am not the best programmer around here. I am sure there > are > > many people better than me. > > Disclaimer 2. I am not an expert on the subject of free Vs paid. > > > > Having said the above let me make a few observations on this subject. > > > > 1) I have seen a few "immature idiots" who think open source is the way > to > > go. Granted, they are good meaning young people, however they need to > know > > where they are headed. > > 2) Then there are the "intellectual ignoranti" who think Open Source is > the > > panacea for all "humanities Illness". > > > > Let us start with Guido Van Rossum. Where does he work? He works for > > Google. > > Brad Fitz the original author of OpenID works for Google. > > Let me tell you that the above, are only a couple of examples. All the > > Open > > Source Guru's of today work for some company or another. Even Linus > > Torvalds. He worked for a company called Transmeta (Which is no more > > today). > > > > If you take the birthplace of all (most of all) startups today, It is San > > Fransisco, and all your beloved Open Source Guru's are either > > 1) Working for one of those BIG companies based in SF( includes Google) > > (and > > a small minority out of SF) > > 2) The other Guru's are working in a startup based in SF and a small > > minority other wise. > > 3)And the rest of the Open source Guru's are writing software in the > hope > > that they will be bought over by no (1) or no (2). > > > > So my question is, what shit are you talking about based in India? > Please, > > Please Enlighten me? > > > > > > > > -- > > http://about.me/santosh.rajan > > > > “The *young man* knows the rules but the *old man* knows the > > exceptions”. *Oliver > > Wendell Holmes* > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- http://about.me/santosh.rajan “The *young man* knows the rules but the *old man* knows the exceptions”. *Oliver Wendell Holmes* _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
