[Ilugc] Some good news.....
- From: open.source@xxxxxxx (Arun Kumar)
- Date: Sat Jun 26 11:45:55 2010
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
innovation among lawyers. Imagine a lawyer who finds a loophole in the law,
patenting the use of the loophole and preventing others from using them
without a fee.
it's going to be a disaster then! :) if one think patents should be there for
certain industries to preserve their innovation, then my question is why
it's not applicable for IT industry? (It doesn't matter whether components
are software or hardware). Actually from the article/link posted in the thread,
nothing much to cheer about it rather continue to focus on what we're
interested
and I strongly believe the next generation people would recognize the
advantages of
F/OSS and also certainly think about the merits & demerits of prop software.
One must
understand, it may take longer time than what we anticipate since the depth of
prop
product's dependency spread across in some of world's largest
institutions/corporations.
For example, my firm have around more than 0.5 million people (approx) across
the globe, if you look at business units, they all prefer and continue to be
with
what exists there already (most of them are prop softwares and you can't change
things
or prop --> F/OSS within some specified time or even you can't talk about that
more
since they business; sponsors for all IT Ops! it may be like this: start
building
business apps and reduce the prop softwres dependencies, show the cost savings,
speak to
then with facts/results, move ahead with desktop computing.
I do this: Don't think too much the about the organization which keeps selling
prop
software and keep cursing whenever we talk about them with other F/OSS
fellow/peers,
nothing really going to stop them immediately! rather look at your
community/region
around,focus on promoting F/OSS and helping people either through any public
forum
or offline on how to come up with good things by using F/OSS tools.
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