Gabor Szabo wrote:Freedom ?
Not in the Israeli business vocabulary...
Before one hails and advocates OSS one has to educated for better IT thinking:
Find out what the business requirement are.
Strip out MS-talk (mail and scheduling instead of exchange...).
List the true functional requirement.
Research both closed and open solution.
Show case studies.
Display the solutions.
The most important things in my mind:
FOSS advocates should have (and usually do) better understanding of IT technology, standards and trends.
FOSS advocates should not blindly attack closed solutions, nor blindly hail OSS solutions. Always check your facts.
Never use costs as an the first or only factor. Managers tend to make two assumptions:
1. Free (as in beer) = Cheap = low quality
2. If I pay for a license, the vendor has a responsibly toward me.
There is little point in trying to hammer out these assumptions.
Hi Gil,
The points above, combined with the occational BSA ads and articles like http://whatsup.co.il/article.php?sid=1972 (9 german cities consider moving to Linux instead of paying MS for upgrading their systems next year) drive me to a "campeign idea": "Microsoft/BSA scares you? Move to Linux". Maybe combined with a "BSA" with a large "X" across it on leaflets at Hi-Tech shows.
Does such a message carry a weight when a FOSS consultancy aproaches a prospective Israeli client?
(Hmmm, maybe one should be careful with the "Anti BSA" message, you don't want to be portraid as advocating piracy, which the BSA managed to position itself as its main target).
--Amos
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