On Thursday 30 December 2010 03:28:26 Sagar Belure wrote:
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:59 AM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
Get this clear: BEFORE you ask questions, you research and post the results of your research. Then others will reply based on your understanding or lack thereof.
Alright. The Revolution OS documentary which was made in 2001 shows difficulties Eric Raymond and other VA systems software developers were facing problems while implementing the projects and to get venture capital firms investments.
Oh. Moral of the story venture capitalists are stupid.
Also, why was the term "Open Source" came into existence instead of "Free Software", and so the BSD license.
Cause ESR could not get VC funding. BSD came about because the BSD guys dont need money, they are devils - just look at their logo - and dont need anything more than a raging fire. .
And then, the Netscape's decision to make their source code open so to complete with Microsoft's IE.
M$ got their IE code from NCSA Mosaic a free software. Some they took from BSD and the rest from a trash can.
And, so on and forth. But, the documentary and even some of links I got by googling are like late 90's.
Something is wrong with google. They cant figure out searches properly. BTW the hits you get have a readership ranking. The scheme is stupid, because higher beings dont ever read whatever everybody else reads.
I mean, if you think for now, say, "What? A browser for $$? Are you nuts to buy that?"
If you say "What? a M$ product ? you must be nuts to kill your computer, screw your data, and pay money. Not to mention getting shafted en passant by those crazy FOSS guys who dont know how to make money.
Also, for guy like me, dealing with all this Free and Open source world not even more than an year now, is not at all worth to refer that all.
True. After all history never repeats for those who dont know. Better hibernate. 20 years from now the world will have crawled backwards and the 90ish answers would be like so relevant.
I wanted the real-time scenario, or should I say, how the market look at all this FOSS development life cycles.
One of the very good methods of making money is studying some topic of interest, then writing articles and holding seminars - one way of providing answers. Do you have the faintest clue how sought after are such people?.
I can't really imagine, people making a *real* business out of this.
Will someone lend him some imagination. I am really on the floor now.
FOSS is vast ecosystem of every concievable tool imaginable and invariably many thousand before you have faced the same problem and found solutions, usually by a bit of research, many suggestions and sometimes by writing code. The nature of the net is such that all such exchanges are archived and google throws up the answers.
But if you expect to sit on your derriere and get answers you are going nowhere.
Agreed. I wish I see that line, I wake up every morning out of my bed.
Take a print and paste it on your wall. Or set it up as a wake up tone. On second thought read all the nineties stuff - every alphabet. If that does not help, nothing will.