On Thursday 29 December 2005 00:33, Rony Bill wrote:
JTD wrote:
The ridiculous part was that DOT guys had a rule (upto 1987 afair) which made connecting a fax machine a criminal offence - just like carrying a wireless non gsm cdma handset is today.
Yes. I recollect, our customers had to apply to mtnl with details of their fax machine and the guys at the exchange would allow fax traffic from that number. Luckily all that stopped soon.
The "enabling" was actually disabling of metering pulses generated on the E-10B and NEC exchanges.
Also I myself saw fax technology as hitting a deadend in a few years - notice how color faxes are an expensive oddity and color scanners are 1/10 the price and x100 the performance of a color fax. Fax killed telex, the email killed fax, and wireless will kill GSM / CDMA and the phone companies.
Email was killing my fax business so I had to get into computers. "If you can't beat them, join them".
Preferably riding a fast bird in a sea full of sharxps.
Precisely these reasons hinder the widespread use of foss. The big difference is that foss is not a Company that has to think of cash infusion today to fund tomorrows market or worry about someone else's business going phut. All you have to do is focus on technology.
Creating a successfull brand is necessary too. Thats where the West is leading the world whereas even though Indians are talented, we still aren't good at creating global brands.
We simply did not have the financial and other infrastructure necessary to go global. Indian companies also did not have an incentive to go global given the fat margins and lack of competition in the local market.
Even in open source software, the world looks towards the West. Even our popular linux distros and their bundled softwares are created in the West.
That is if u are selling distros or relying on someone else (RH, Novell) to do the "selling" for installations on hardware u sell. Otherwise u can say whatever RH is saying and sell your own LFS.
How do we make the turn around? What can we do to create successfull Indian brands globally?
Read Kotler, Ries, and others, make a good product, advertise, sales promos, press release hope for the best. 10 yrs later u will know wether u have a good brand. If not jmp 0.