[Ilugc] [[OT]] Need Guideline on Open Source business
- From: baskar@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Baskar Selvaraj)
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:27:05 +0530
I did a research in my town and here major market share goes to Windows
(obviously pirated) and technology solution shops are not ready to migrate
to Open Source because they are making handsome bucks out of providing
pirated solutions to ignorant computer users.
Where there is more market share for Windows (say pirated), there is
more market for Free software also (say GNU/Linux).
For them it's easy to make handsome bucks by providing pirated
solutions than giving customized solutions.
Secondly, I also visited few engineering colleges and university campus for
having a bird-eye view on their curriculum. I was amazed that it doesn't
have any space for Open Source (as of now) and not even a single college or
teacher wants to support me on this. :(
What you have tried to do for colleges/universities and what kind of
support you expect from them ? How many engineering
colleges/univeriwsties you have visited so far ?
I am confused that how can Open Source be a good option for me to earn my
bread (like teaching open source technologies, providing solutions etc.).
If there are hundreds of ways out there to make money from proprietary
software/solutions. Then there are thousands of ways you will find
for making money from free software.
One more problem is when I talk and discuss about Open Source and narrate
them the benefits (like freely available and others too) then people ask me
that if it's free then why should we pay you for this? My answer is: You'll
pay for my services not for any software cost. Does my answer make any
sense?
What kind of services you are planning to provide for your customers.
You have to be more specific about, how you have prepared yourself for
serving your customers.
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