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*
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