Re: [ossig] FOSSCON 2005

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 02:36 +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:

> > some awareness is better than zero awareness. Yes, you right that this 
> 
> i'd rather we hit straight at the pocket book. there're tons of microsoft 
> developers because there are jobs which /pay/ for microsoft developers. 
> we've got to show them that they can make a buck on this side of the fence 
> as well. ideology and religion wont win them over.

Agreed, and couldn't be said better. People aren't convinced by the
idealogy, they still want to make the ultimate buck, in the end

Even FOSS licensing tends to be misunderstood. "If I sell one GPLed
software to one company, I can't sell it to the nine others that I
normally do when I don't write FOSS stuff" -- is a common thing that I
hear

Why its still misunderstood, I wonder...

> for starters, i'd be happy if some of the local FOSS proponents who're not 
> in development, start doing some development. FOSS expertise in malaysia is 
> still largely in systems administration, with very few venturing into 
> software development. the problem is because we lack a vibrant FOSS 
> /developer/ community.

Aye. Unless they can re-master Webmin and make it more secure, and what
not ;-)

But agreed, it would be great if more folk from .my actually started
coding, submitting patches, etc... Advocacy is boring, and empty
promises to the international/bigger projects are ridiculous (makes
Malaysians look bad too)

-- 
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi


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