Hi Mukund, On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 9:20 pm, Mukund N Rathi wrote: > But u cannot copy books as easily as u can do that for Windows. Oops i > mean softwares. Agreed, but in both cases you are commiting a crime unless the authors allows copying of their works.
> And for Books we have library. where in we use books for some time and > then return them. > SW? How very different is that from using software for sometime and then going in for upgrades/updates ?? Also, have you heard about the 'software as a service business model' ?? In any case all this is not related to Open Source Software. We are drifting into the business models for the software industry in general. I hope you understood the point about how OSS does not mean hungry programmers. HTH Regards Steve -- Once, when the secrets of science were the jealously guarded property of a small priesthood, the common man had no hope of mastering their arcane complexities. Years of study in musty classrooms were prerequisite to obtaining even a dim, incoherent knowledge of science. Today all that has changed: a dim, incoherent knowledge of science is available to anyone. -- Tom Weller, "Science Made Stupid" -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.