[Ubuntu-PH] can anybody help us?

[hard wyrd]

Yep. That's what I've been saying earlier in the thread. See below:

No, I dont think cafes are in the position to nor is it in the right
> business sense for them to conduct such an effort. This will still be the
> exclusive domain of enthusiasts, researchers, and full-time devs with
> venture capitalist backing. The iCafe business right now mostly are a
> mom-and-pop operation with a very few exceptions like Netopia, etc.
>

The reason why big-wig outfits the like of Oracle, IBM, Novell, HP, etc are
tapping into opensource, aside from the vibrant community effort, is that
opensource provides them with a fresh business paradigm to work on. Bruce
Perens and Eric Raymond has seen this before. Of course to the dismay of
RMS, and other hard-line FSF supporters who believe ESR has "sold out".


On Dec 29, 2007 10:20 AM, Jerome Gotangco <jgotangco at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
> I don't think its community will just make this work, there also needs
> to be a commercial component, after all, the philosophies surrounding
> free software just doesn't cut it when discussing about a business,
> hence open source came to be. A few years ago, a startup called
> Indrema attempted to build such a platform, but sadly, the issues
> about money and capital got in the way.
>
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