[Ilugc] Is the proprietary camp winning ?
- From: goda.abishek@xxxxxxxxx (Ingeneur)
- Date: Mon Oct 16 10:45:08 2006
Our point is about developer salaries. Now your company has employed and
paid salaries to s/w people to fix/customize the code.
To have salaries we dont need to go OSS or FOSS (if they arent the same)
In a closed source model the money would have been routed through the vendor
of software and that company would have grown monstrous.
After all, why will I start a company to do charity?
Open Source enables everyone to choose how they should run their business
and distributes wealth and business opportunities more evenly. There will be
no hassles about evil/benign monopoly, stiffling of innovation etc.
But do innovations happen in the industry? Can companies invest time
and money in research that they will *give away* to the community?
You need not go to *evil*. You just can not become a Mittal or Bill Gates
and shake billions of dollars at the world. You will be putting your
resources to the best of your abilities for the benefit of your company
Which is make profit over and above what I just need to package and ship it.
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Regards,
Abishek Goda
http://goda.abishek.googlepages.com
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