[PLUG] Question about companies and open source applications

[Nikhil Karkare]

Sankarshan,
By "mention", I mean both, in writing, as well as in their pitch. Only upon
telling them that I already have their "software", they claim that they
don't know much about the OS and Open Source and all that, and will get back
to me. Of course, they don't.

I am not talking about even customization of FOSS. They sell software just
out of the box.

Regards,
Nikhil.

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Nikhil Karkare
Co-Ordinator
Millennium National School
http://www.myeshala.in
http://www.myshala.com
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Nikhil Karkare
> <nikhil.karkare at myshala.com> wrote:
>
> > I am part of a school, and keep meeting people who want to sell me
> software.
> > Here is a situation that I come across regularly.
> > I find people selling products based on Linux. I see them writing a
> > few lines of code, customizing Gnome or KDE a bit, and using the rest
> > for free from the Linux world.
> > By apps I mean GCompris. These guys use gcompris apps, and don't
> > mention anywhere that the apps are from GCompris. Plus, they don't
> > even mention that they use Linux as an operating system! They say that
> > they have no problems of viruses, no problem in virtualization. Is it
> > some groundbreaking OS that has been written from scratch? I don't
> > think so. Why don't they mention that they run Linux and use open
> > source apps? Aren't they liable to do that?
>
> By 'mention' do you indicate that they don't provide such things
> in-writing or, is it that it goes unmentioned during their pitch ?
>
> > More than liability, I feel sad that since most schools don't know
> > about Linux and GCompris, they are sold out on this. Linux and
> > GCompris don't get the recognition that they deserve.
>
> The problem begins to arise when the custom development for the
> applications are based on existing FOSS bits but access to source code
> is not provided as a matter of entitlement. And then of course we have
> that 'open core' thing :)
> <http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/03/05/open-core-slur.html>
>
> --
> sankarshan mukhopadhyay
> <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/>
>
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