[Fsf-friends] Fwd: [nagarjun@gnowledge.org: [ILUG-BOM] Tally and GNU/Linux]

[Nagarjuna G.]

On Tuesday 12 Apr 2005 5:33 pm, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:59 +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> > > agencies.  This clearly shows that these distribution
> > > companies do not have any interest other than being in
> > > business. 
> > > 
> > > BTW, those of you who have some knowledge of this
> > > application, can you do some research about how the
> > > data is stored in Tally?  Is this encoding a standard?
> > > Does this application support Export of data to any
> > > other standards?   What freedom users have?  Are
> > > the users locked in?  etc.
> > > 
> 
> 
> Lets be clear on one thing - is being in business/being a
> businessman/running a for-profit setup a "wrong
thing"?


No. doing a business for earning only without looking
into the social consequences is, I think, wrong.
earning profit is not wrong, but we do need to have a
check on the means of earning profit.

You reply suggests, that it is possible to take the
data out of Tally, can you inform how?

Nagarjuna