Thanks for the reply.
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It is very sad to see that the few
people who are promoting free software are also tired and depressed.
Dunno where you jumped to that conclusion.
I have been watching these lists for quite a while. There hardly any
projects / activity / events other than meetups that have started recently.
I think we are barely scratching the surface as far as promotion of free
software is concerned. Even the FSF India website is dated.
Clearly new energy is required on> and revenue is
also increasing year on
year, but it is still not enough. If
we divert attention in too many things, then we may
lose the advantage
that
ERPNext has built up. Also, there is a lot to be
done.
Business development is part of a business. Every
state government
spends tens crores on education. The smartness is in campaigning for
FOSS with ones business goals in mind.
If you take funding from let's say the FSF, it
would be wholly
unprincipled to project your company
/ services in such programs, unless you too were
contributing financially.
We are not taking or wanting to take any funding from FSF. Thankfully we
are able to sell hosting services to the user community. Our goal was to
voluntarily go to these organizations and not to promote our software but
Linux Desktops, Office tools, Mail and Web Servers - the basic stack.
This would be ideally done under the umbrella of Free
Software Foundation
of India (or if they are very religious/suspicious about us who have to
earn our bread and don't live off grants, or there are too many
ego-mountains to be climbed, then we could form a new group).
That one is a Pointless rant. Afaik, Nobody on this
list is living off
someone else's largesse.
Agree - its a rant, but I have mailed a lot of people individually, and
from the response (or lack) I can clearly sense that we are "outsiders".
Either ways, its surely something for people to introspect - we need to
pool resources if we have to fight commercial interests.
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