Intention of open source/free software is to save the cost, not to generate revenue. You can save the cost by using it out-of-box software or you can customize it to your need so that you will not produce the complete clone of it.
My strong point is that "Generating money is left to a business/individual". People need money to survive.. No one offer free money/fuel/electricity/food etc. The open source developer passionate about doing the things which they are interested. Its like someone teaching to poor students or illiterates on week-end or end of the day after busy work for free of cost. No one pays for Django/Rails as a web framework, they are still open source & free. No one ask money for doing a interesting plug-in or library for these frameworks. When business wants to create a web site using these framework, business pays for that. It is called consulting or out-sourcing that is what Ponnappa has mentioned. Open source is not a market.. It is a choice. You choose it or ignore it with your own wisdom. I would happy to invest in Visual Studio for 1500 USD than programming in SharpDevelop. I would very happy to use SVN/Mercurial free than buying a TFS stack for 50000 USD. I feel more productive with my customized emacs than using TextMate and investing on Mac's. So coming back to your observation, you missed one more point. There are matured business/individual who can decide when to go for open source/closed-commercial tools by choice. I least bothered about 'idiot' or 'ignorant' you have mentioned.. I would advise them to learn first than discussing in this forum.. PS: OP should calm down and mind his words!! Regards, Gopalakrishnan Subramani On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Santosh Rajan <santra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ya okay, so I agree with whatever you say. So what are you suggesting? > > There are a lot of very intelligent people around here, and I can see that > you are one of them, my apologies for being a lesser brain damaged soul. > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar < > benignb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Santosh Rajan <santra...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > And ya, and you still don't have anything to say for yourself!??? > > > > > > > Well, I normally don't reply when people use strong and foul > > language(No, don't ask me to quote it; the whole list knows) without > > any valid reason. Now that you forgot what you initially said(i.e. > > your disclaimer 2) and you asked for a quote, I had to reply to remind > > you of your own statement. Thanks > > > > > > -- > > Thank you > > Balachandran Sivakumar > > > > Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached. > > > > Mail: benignb...@gmail.com > > Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
