On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:59 AM, jtd <jtd(a)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.
Also, why was the term "Open Source" came into existence instead of
"Free Software", and so the BSD license.
And then, the Netscape's decision to make their source code open so to
complete with Microsoft's IE.
And, so on and forth.
But, the documentary and even some of links I got by googling are like
late 90's.
I mean, if you think for now, say, "What? A browser for $$? Are you
nuts to buy that?"
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.
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.
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.
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Thanks,
Sagar Belure