Agreed! Thanks! On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Gopalakrishnan Subramani < gopalakrishnan.subram...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > -- 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
