In my understanding most big companies (proprietary and others) support
FOSS. With FOSS lot of tech developments happen which is finally somehow or
other used to promote their brand/ products.
I heard the same about
Chromium browser vs Chrome.
Android and OpenJDK ?!
umpteen number of drivers.. and so on.
Money really rules.
2014-07-11 12:19 GMT+05:30 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com>:
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Avinash Sonawane <rootkea at gmail.com>
wrote:
1) To have a proprietary product company as a sponsor of FOSS event is
it morally right? I mean there will be banners, flyers of that
proprietary company all over the venue. In an event we are promoting
FOSS and on a venue we are promoting/marketing proprietary product
company. Isn't it contradictory behaviour?
But if we deny the sponsorship aren't we depriving that proprietary
company of doing a noble deed (of supporting a FOSS event)?
While I wonder whether supporting a FOSS event is a "noble deed", it
would be nicer if you can provide examples of companies that match
your definition of a proprietary product company.
2) What about proprietary *service* company? I mean the one which
serves it's client with say system administration or building a dbms
system (which is closed source suppose) for the client e.g. Infosys
(http://www.infosys.com/), Wipro (www.wipro.com), Persistent
(www.persistent.com) etc. Is it something different with the
proprietary service company compared to proprietary product company?
This of course means that you assume that the companies you list [i]
do not use an FOSS stacks for their services deployment/consultancy
[ii] do not contribute to any FOSS project [iii] do not see value in
encouraging an ecosystem by contributing in as many forms as possible.
I would be interested in understanding why you see it that way.
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<https://about.me/sankarshan.mukhopadhyay>
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