Offlate a disturbing thought has started bothering me. What would happen after 20 years from now on ? Is open source going to destroy software businesses? Well right at the start let me clarify that I like open source a lot and as much as possible try to use open source software. But is this open source a "destructive technology "?
A few days back I read a Richard Stallman interview where he said people should not develop software for living !
Imagine thousands of families without a source of income all over India if this ever happens.So in a way I feel that what RMS says is utter crap. I'ts okay that he developed FSF and we use a lot of his code today but his view are skewed and he fails to understand what could be implications of Free software. If we make very software free then there won't be any software business and whatever would be left would be just to maintain code. If all the code is open sourced then what would be the motivation to develop a software ...if you cannot sell it?
Imagine a scenario in future when a lot of code is open source and more then 50 % people use open source model . Then a person x needs a specific program and he asks a particular company to develop this code. Having a firm belief in Open Source he asks the company to GPL the software they developed for him or atleast give him the source code. Like him a lot of people need this software and they demand the same from the company. So now a few individuals on this planet have this software and this code . What happens next is anybody's guess!
These people who have the code start selling it (piracy ) steps in. Not only does the comapny which developed the code is not able to sell it anymore ,somebody else is making money on their work !
think about it
and leave comments ..may be I m not able to see things in right perspective..correct me if I m wrong
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Friday, March 04, 2005
OS(open source)
We are planning to roll out an IITK specific gentoo based Linux/GNU distro.This distro would enable lesser mortals like us to use gentoo without wasting too much time on tweaking. I ve already tried gentoo once but it could not boot :) . Though I dislike the very idea of tweaking everything myself and like things that are polished. I guess this is where Open Source needs to catch up ...polished products. There are a very few polished and complete products around. Those who are there are very famous like firefox,DC++,fedora etc. What do I mean by polished here ?
A polished product is a complete product with documentation , hardware compatibility and most importantly user friendliness. I guess a lot of products in open source domain lack this.They don't worry much on UI part which in my view is the most important as not everybody is a rocket scientist to figure out things and tweak and optimize. This is the same with gentoo. It's a great product but it lacks UI. Had they concentrated on making the installation process a bit user friendly ,it would have been numero uno in linux distro market. In my view this is the sole reason why companies like M$ and apple have gained so much market, they concentrate a lot on UI.
Time has come for OS to break this shackles of Non User friendly interfaces OR crappy UIs and realize that if OS has to gain more popularity then UI is a must.
A polished product is a complete product with documentation , hardware compatibility and most importantly user friendliness. I guess a lot of products in open source domain lack this.They don't worry much on UI part which in my view is the most important as not everybody is a rocket scientist to figure out things and tweak and optimize. This is the same with gentoo. It's a great product but it lacks UI. Had they concentrated on making the installation process a bit user friendly ,it would have been numero uno in linux distro market. In my view this is the sole reason why companies like M$ and apple have gained so much market, they concentrate a lot on UI.
Time has come for OS to break this shackles of Non User friendly interfaces OR crappy UIs and realize that if OS has to gain more popularity then UI is a must.
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Yippee!
Good things are happening to me
First) I won two competitions at Techkriti (technical festival at IITK) first one was hacking competition ...conducted by Sachin Deodher a huge geek! when he talked we were like "WOW!!!"
he actually runs a comp with 1 ghz overclocking ..can you believe this !!
well the prize money was 5000 and three guys share it ... my teammates were Varun from pune and anirban from jalpaigudi(must admit he was a big pain ) ...though had no idea about the last round as it involved a lot about assembely but did chipped in with my bit in the first two rounds...
second)Was really unexpected ..but I must admit that I dreamt a lot about it :) Dreams sometimes come true ... But surely it was the most unexpected...The open software contest ...a sexy 15k prize money and a geek recognition ..what more I could have asked for ...and whats more we did not even have a presentation ready or a paper to present to judges
But we did it with style ..even though my english was jerky and cheap ..I managed it
we here means nanda and me ...but I m not gonna share any prize money with him :P
hmm ..so much for techkriti
yesterday I got this summer internship at Ankeleshwar in gujrat ..must admit not a very good one ..but neither a bad one ....this one with 2000 bucks and TA and accomodation would see my summer through
and yeah I was working for a company and they gave me 500 bucks
so money is not scarce these days for me
whats more ..yeah a girl proposed to me :D
so I guess my lukha days are over ...but ...are they ?
Nah ...I am better as I am ..free like a ....street dog :P
is there somethign I m forgetting ?
well don't think so
adios
First) I won two competitions at Techkriti (technical festival at IITK) first one was hacking competition ...conducted by Sachin Deodher a huge geek! when he talked we were like "WOW!!!"
he actually runs a comp with 1 ghz overclocking ..can you believe this !!
well the prize money was 5000 and three guys share it ... my teammates were Varun from pune and anirban from jalpaigudi(must admit he was a big pain ) ...though had no idea about the last round as it involved a lot about assembely but did chipped in with my bit in the first two rounds...
second)Was really unexpected ..but I must admit that I dreamt a lot about it :) Dreams sometimes come true ... But surely it was the most unexpected...The open software contest ...a sexy 15k prize money and a geek recognition ..what more I could have asked for ...and whats more we did not even have a presentation ready or a paper to present to judges
But we did it with style ..even though my english was jerky and cheap ..I managed it
we here means nanda and me ...but I m not gonna share any prize money with him :P
hmm ..so much for techkriti
yesterday I got this summer internship at Ankeleshwar in gujrat ..must admit not a very good one ..but neither a bad one ....this one with 2000 bucks and TA and accomodation would see my summer through
and yeah I was working for a company and they gave me 500 bucks
so money is not scarce these days for me
whats more ..yeah a girl proposed to me :D
so I guess my lukha days are over ...but ...are they ?
Nah ...I am better as I am ..free like a ....street dog :P
is there somethign I m forgetting ?
well don't think so
adios
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Politics and other stuff
Politics @ iitk: is cleaner than any other place in india (yes I can safely say that after spending 3 yrs at iitk)...Elections are coming near and I was convincing my ex roomie to have ago at the presi post ...but he's not ready..I don't think I have ever seen a much more composed and maure person than him ...but maturity has some traits ..it takes away the spirit of adventure from you ...
New year: like others before have promise and excitment and I really wish to do some good work in my grade books this year ...infact I ve to do it otherwise ...
New courses this year are really crazy and weird ...one from the deadly skg seems tough right from the word go with a lot of imagination and stuff ...then the bio course has a lot of mugging to do and then there are two courses which haven't yet started !!! Infact one is going to start from 17 th jan after almost 20 days the sem starts ...some profs are really cool :)
Why aren't all of em like him ...I really hope that he takes the course at all :P
then there is this lab course we have to do which is kinda weird and we have to do a 20 min presentation of all the practicals ...weird isn't it ?
My cellphone: I miss you ...You won't ever understand why I ve left you home ...infact even I don't understand why I did that :P ....and my ex roomie told me that you are weird when I told him that I ve left my cell home ...but is there some reason behind this action ...there must be one ....is it becoz I was too pissed off wasting my parents' money ? Or is it because I was not able to control myself and was always hooked to it ? probably it's all of these ...And I don't really repent the decision now I really do have so much time to do other stuff :)
try it once ..you won't need it again
New year: like others before have promise and excitment and I really wish to do some good work in my grade books this year ...infact I ve to do it otherwise ...
New courses this year are really crazy and weird ...one from the deadly skg seems tough right from the word go with a lot of imagination and stuff ...then the bio course has a lot of mugging to do and then there are two courses which haven't yet started !!! Infact one is going to start from 17 th jan after almost 20 days the sem starts ...some profs are really cool :)
Why aren't all of em like him ...I really hope that he takes the course at all :P
then there is this lab course we have to do which is kinda weird and we have to do a 20 min presentation of all the practicals ...weird isn't it ?
My cellphone: I miss you ...You won't ever understand why I ve left you home ...infact even I don't understand why I did that :P ....and my ex roomie told me that you are weird when I told him that I ve left my cell home ...but is there some reason behind this action ...there must be one ....is it becoz I was too pissed off wasting my parents' money ? Or is it because I was not able to control myself and was always hooked to it ? probably it's all of these ...And I don't really repent the decision now I really do have so much time to do other stuff :)
try it once ..you won't need it again
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
is m$ really this crazy
I was reading something about .Net and came across this.
It's hilarious how M$ can commit a blunder like this ??? ...Though I don't have much exposure to databases and all ..still I understand the importance of encryption of passwords!...It's hard to believe how M$ can't undersatnd it ?
That was all 'bout M$ bashing ...now some personal stuff.
I left for delhi on 22nd night and came back a few hours ago. I was there for a conference called PANIIT ...it was really great and I enjoyed it a lot. It was not only the free food but also the exalirating experience of meeting the CEO's of chevron-texaco , bharti and headstrong !(yes I met em all ) ..
enof for today
It's hilarious how M$ can commit a blunder like this ??? ...Though I don't have much exposure to databases and all ..still I understand the importance of encryption of passwords!...It's hard to believe how M$ can't undersatnd it ?
That was all 'bout M$ bashing ...now some personal stuff.
I left for delhi on 22nd night and came back a few hours ago. I was there for a conference called PANIIT ...it was really great and I enjoyed it a lot. It was not only the free food but also the exalirating experience of meeting the CEO's of chevron-texaco , bharti and headstrong !(yes I met em all ) ..
enof for today
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
iTunes rockz ....
iTunes is a cute little software by apple people... this one software is great to say the least!
Just install it and there you go!
Searching , rating music , sharing music , multiple playlists ,radio (hundreds of 'em) , listen to music from iTunes music stores (buying music fron India is still ot possible) ...you name it and they have it. It even counts number of times a song has been played,. And a sorting of songs that will blow you ove. Whats better here is the low ram and cpu usage.
It is one software that can be judged as the best software for desktop pcs.
Just install it and there you go!
Searching , rating music , sharing music , multiple playlists ,radio (hundreds of 'em) , listen to music from iTunes music stores (buying music fron India is still ot possible) ...you name it and they have it. It even counts number of times a song has been played,. And a sorting of songs that will blow you ove. Whats better here is the low ram and cpu usage.
It is one software that can be judged as the best software for desktop pcs.
Sunday, July 11, 2004
on a very sad note
munh ki baat sune har koi
dil ke dard ko jane kaun
kaun aavaazon ke baazaaron mein
Khaamoshii pahachaane kaun
may be a topfied line ...but this is exactly how I feel.
desperately missing some good friends
dil ke dard ko jane kaun
kaun aavaazon ke baazaaron mein
Khaamoshii pahachaane kaun
may be a topfied line ...but this is exactly how I feel.
desperately missing some good friends
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Gmail!!!
Finally I got my gmail account today.well I was a bit disappointed to see that it used activex components and one cant access it from opera and most of the other browsers...google ppl have never done this partiality...so y now ? may be because most of the world uses internet explorer....(92% of the connected world is on windows with only 1% on linux) so what is the use of standard compliance...
??? (source of this info is http://www.google.co.in/press/zeitgeist.html)
linux may be a free operating system with good features but sometimes I feel it's worthless to spend so much time on linux ...afterall it's just another operating system which happens to be free ...but is it really ? linux does take up a lot of time to get fimiliar and configuration is difficult ...also the human interface is much weaker in linux than in XP ...hardware support sucks on linux and games are non existent ( i m not talking abt arcade stuff)...I installed linux on my system and for first few dayz it worked like anyhting the one fine day the network just went off ...i tried everything from googling to reinstalling the whole thing ...but nothing works ...believe it linux has not matured as a desktoiop system yet and by the time it does it would be just too late for it to become a operating system for masses..
??? (source of this info is http://www.google.co.in/press/zeitgeist.html)
linux may be a free operating system with good features but sometimes I feel it's worthless to spend so much time on linux ...afterall it's just another operating system which happens to be free ...but is it really ? linux does take up a lot of time to get fimiliar and configuration is difficult ...also the human interface is much weaker in linux than in XP ...hardware support sucks on linux and games are non existent ( i m not talking abt arcade stuff)...I installed linux on my system and for first few dayz it worked like anyhting the one fine day the network just went off ...i tried everything from googling to reinstalling the whole thing ...but nothing works ...believe it linux has not matured as a desktoiop system yet and by the time it does it would be just too late for it to become a operating system for masses..
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