[Fsf-friends] Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 8

Tue Jan 10 12:28:27 IST 2006

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>   1. Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7 (Mishi Choudhary)
>   2. Re: Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7 (shibu c varughese)
>   3. Re: Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7 (Harish Narayanan)
>   4. Re: Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7 (Manilal K M)
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> Message: 1
> Date: 9 Jan 2006 15:10:39 -0000
> From: "Mishi Choudhary" <mishi_c at rediffmail.com>
> Subject: [Fsf-friends] Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
> To: fsf-friends at mm.gnu.org.in
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> hello everyone
> since i am new to all this and allof you seem to be pros can u please
> spare sometime to answer certain questions i have .i'll look forward to
> hearing from you all
> can you please explain the economic viability of using free software?
> how are the  developers of free software adequately compensated?
> how big is free software in comparison to proprietary software?
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> Warm Regards
> Mishi Choudhary
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:38:00 +0530
> From: "shibu c varughese" <admin at itmission.org>
> Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
> To: "Mishi Choudhary" <mishi_c at rediffmail.com>, "Principal Support
>        List of FSF-India" <fsf-friends at mm.gnu.org.in>
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> hi ..mishi,
> "open source" software, and is distributed under the GPL (GNU General
> Public License), this is the difference from other major systems.
> Open source  can provide your application : speed, reliability,
> performance, portability and affordability....An example is the killer
> application [Apache],  just check out the market share for the Apache web
> server at  http://news.netcraft.com/...also do just check out A case study
> in open source business for Trolltech at
> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/03/155235   this is just an
> example which tells how Trolltech is obviously a successful company.
>
> Thanks,
> Shibu C V
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> On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:40:39 +0530, Mishi Choudhary
> <mishi_c at rediffmail.com> wrote:
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> > hello everyone
> > since i am new to all this and allof you seem to be pros can u please
> > spare sometime to answer certain questions i have .i'll look forward to
> > hearing from you all
> > can you please explain the economic viability of using free software?
> > how are the  developers of free software adequately compensated?
> > how big is free software in comparison to proprietary software?
> >
> > Warm Regards
> > Mishi Choudhary
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:02:00 -0500
> From: Harish Narayanan <harish at gamebox.net>
> Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
> To: Mishi Choudhary <mishi_c at rediffmail.com>,   Principal Support List
>        of FSF-India <fsf-friends at mm.gnu.org.in>
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> Mishi Choudhary wrote:
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> >hello everyone
> >since i am new to all this and allof you seem to be pros can u please
> spare sometime to answer certain questions i have .i'll look forward to
> hearing from you all
> >
> >
> I am going to be very brief.
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> >can you please explain the economic viability of using free software?
> >how are the  developers of free software adequately compensated?
> >
> >
> Those two are related questions.
>
> Functional business models around Free software mostly follow a path
> that involves releasing the software Free (as in freedom and price), and
> then charging the users for support or services around the core
> software. Often times, since people need customised variants of software
> to suit their specific needs, they can (and do) pay developers to work
> on modifying Free software to suit these requirements. This way, they
> get what they want without having to build things from scratch, and the
> software itself benefits as these improvements work their way back into
> the parent projects.
>
> >how big is free software in comparison to proprietary software?
> >
> >
> It differs based on what areas you're looking at. At the core levels
> (the sorts of thing that drive the web: Apache, sendmail, ...), Free
> software is huge; much bigger than proprietary software. This is also
> quite true in realms such as high performance scientific computing in
> research at large universities (where distributions of GNU/Linux, gcc,
> Free numerical libraries rule the roost). If you were asking about the
> "desktop space", its installation base is much much smaller than
> proprietary software, like Windows. But I would be willing to wager it
> is in the order of magnitude of popularity as Mac OS X.
>
> Harish
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:40:37 +0530
> From: Manilal K M <libregeek at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
> To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends at mm.gnu.org.in>
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> Dear Mishi,
>   I hope the book *Innovation happens elsewhere* may be  a good
> starting point to know how you can make business using Free/Open
> source and how to participate in Free/open Source projects. It's
> available online at http://dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE.html and is licensed
> using Creative Commons
> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
>
> regards
> Manilal
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