[FSUG-Bangalore] abhas talk - feed back from Magesh and engineer with a leading propritery software company in blr

[Shibu C Varughese]

hi ....

do we have the .flv for Free Software Talk by Abhas - 7 June 2008 at youtube
or google videos ?

shibu
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) <
sensunda at cisco.com> wrote:

>  Free Software Talk by Abhas - 7 June 2008
> ------------------------------------------
>
> The talk was presented by Abhas Abhinav, CEO, Deeproot Linux, a free
> software based
> Company in Bangalore.
>
> For a person who is new to free software movement, the talk may seem
> philosophical
> for sometime. However, the very presenter being a successful entrepreneur
> already
> in free software business, that held the interest levels intact. The
> initial slides
> talk about the background of free software, why free software and what free
> software
> is all about. Even though one of the listeners wanted to jump to knowing
> about business
> ideas using free software, Abhas's commitment to educate on principles of
> free software
> business was appreciable.
>
> My idea on attending this talk too was about knowing at least handful of
> business
> ideas using free software. But as the presentation goes by one could
> realize that
> the session's objective was to educate on the model of doing free software
> business
> and not about discussing business ideas as such. May be it was only my
> expectation
> that was wrong. The session helps us realize how we are restricting our
> freedom and
> hence our knowledge in this proprietary software business model.
>
> Abhas was candid about making us realize how much $$$ he may lose if
> someone
> adopts his idea and sells an improved product next door. But this is what a
> free
> software principle is all about.  To be a successful entrepreneur in this,
> he
> emphasizes the importance of 'Value' that you attach to your product which
> wins.
> He says the value that you give in terms of support and services that
> stands a
> differentiator between you and your competitors.
>
> It may be true that proprietary software business can make you more rich
> than your
> FSB counterpart. But the knowledge you spread around by distributing your
> source
> and helping the community to build upon that is a greater achievement. This
> liberation
> of mind is what is essential to be a committed free software follower and a
> FSB
> Entrepreneur as well. Hence they say, "Free software is not about price but
> about
> freedom. Think 'Free' as in free speech and not free beer".
>
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