[Ilugc] Is the proprietary camp winning ?
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
- Date: Fri Oct 13 10:04:44 2006
On 13-Oct-06, at 8:41 AM, Ingeneur wrote:
check collabnet
I am sorry. But there is one consistent mistake doing the rounds in
this list. Don't give one specific case to prove a point. You need a
general case. Exceptions prove the rule. I want to know how many
"collabnets" are there in the industry? You can handpick them. How
many closed source companies are there? Can we take a quick statistic
to compare them? Are they comparable at all??
first thing understand that the FOSS business model is the new
upcoming business model. Obviously the old proprietory business model
dominates. Secondly i only quoted one instance because you are
obviously uninterested in doing any research of your own in this
subject - there are any number of instances - infrae, mysql,
edgewall, mahiti, deeproot, srijan, sql-ledger, katipo, operational
dynamics, collabnet, canonical, redhat, novell, ibm ... you want more?
Like somebody else pointed out, if you do business out of FOSS, you
have to depend on post-sale support. How many people are going to need
one? Too many vendors can offer that support for that many people? And
most lugs can provide similar support for most of the issues in their
mailing list.
again check infrae, mysql, edgewall, mahiti, deeproot, srijan, sql-
ledger, katipo, operational dynamics, collabnet, canonical, redhat,
novell, ibm ... you want more?
Well, I don't believe this topic is taking me anywhere. Those are my
beliefs and I dont want to question them.
you will never get anywhere unless you are constantly questioning
your beliefs and reassessing them in the light of experience - and
being openminded in assessing criticism of your beliefs by others
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regards
kg
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