hello, i appreciate raman's reply :D.
There are so many people working in the proprietary software industry and if there is only FOSS out there so many people are gonna lose jobs.
i didnt understand why they will loose job. its only micros**t who is making win***s. most of the service based s/w industry is making custom-made s/w solutions which is infact as worth as _raw_ code for others. they pack their sandboxes, inserting the EULA and some unearthy privacy statements and ship it, since it became the habit and nothing specially had to be protected, otherthan the vulnerabilities in their own code. Suppose you dont have anybody who is going to make s/w free for you. what will you do, will weave your own code, just like ford doing. in that case too, developers wont loose jobs. and if service and support can bring money, it can bring a _lot_. and for the money-thirsty ventures open source wont restrict they from charging their s/w as far as they are conformal to the licences.
Also he thinks it is sinister about the way GNU/Linux is distributed, he says it has made socomplx that they need to go to experts everytime.
the difference is everytime a windows hangs you need someone from hyderabad and it does hang a lot. gnu/linux, if it hangs ( just like i^2= -1 ) you need a gnu/linux guy, he may be even from a high school. and dont think everything is as easy as WYSWYG, it may be easy to install application s/ws in wndows, but life beyond that is just a hell.
A company develops a product and give away that
for free (download) and asks how the developers get money ?
dont worry, the god of foss wont allow his people to be famined, for that he will shower mannah on them ( exodus 3.15-16). the companies who are benefited from the s/w will ofcourse fund and volunteer the work. and there are lots, gcc is the prime example.
Other argument is that anyway we are getting windows and linux free (pirated in case of windows) and all things that could be done with windows can be done with windows and there is no point in moving away from windows.
can you tell me a company which is using pirated wind**s ?. nobody dude. its not like you sit in some darkhaven cave and use pirated windows and be ecstatical about saving 9000. oh!, i missed. you need to understand freedom before that.
===== ~amal Freedom is worth living for, http://www.gnu.org
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