Comments on: RMS in Sri Lanka http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/ A Sri Lankan, A Rubyist and A Web Dude Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:24:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tania http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/comment-page-1/#comment-15131 Tania Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:13:43 +0000 http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/#comment-15131 I believe "Pugnacious" makes a valid point. Albeit not anti-Open-Source, some ppl got him completely wrong and felt the need to be completely defensive and call the army against him/her. Let me share my experience with open source solutions. I once worked for a company (in SL) which used GNU C++ and came up with three very successful commercial products. It was wonderful. But we always deployed them on UNIX (Soalris and AIX) – the main reason being it was cheaper to propose such a high-end solution with SUN machines with Solaris or IBM machines with AIX than PC servers with Red-Hat. I am serious! We tried the comparison on two occasions and both times SUN solution was cheaper. So y’see at some levels (high through-put and high availability like 10,000 tps running 24 hours a day) we just didn’t have firepower to promote Linux. Also at those high end solutions Apache could not scale to levels that IBM WebSphere did. I believe that Open-Source does need more corporate subscription to iron out the kinks. Someday they will become on par with so called closed-source.. but my feeling is they are not there yet. I believe “Pugnacious” makes a valid point. Albeit not anti-Open-Source, some ppl got him completely wrong and felt the need to be completely defensive and call the army against him/her.

Let me share my experience with open source solutions. I once worked for a company (in SL) which used GNU C++ and came up with three very successful commercial products. It was wonderful. But we always deployed them on UNIX (Soalris and AIX) – the main reason being it was cheaper to propose such a high-end solution with SUN machines with Solaris or IBM machines with AIX than PC servers with Red-Hat. I am serious! We tried the comparison on two occasions and both times SUN solution was cheaper. So y’see at some levels (high through-put and high availability like 10,000 tps running 24 hours a day) we just didn’t have firepower to promote Linux.

Also at those high end solutions Apache could not scale to levels that IBM WebSphere did. I believe that Open-Source does need more corporate subscription to iron out the kinks. Someday they will become on par with so called closed-source.. but my feeling is they are not there yet.

]]> By: DamionKutaeff http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/comment-page-1/#comment-10426 DamionKutaeff Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:42:41 +0000 http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/#comment-10426 Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I'm glad to join your conmunity, and wish to assit as far as possible. Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.

]]> By: Janaka http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/comment-page-1/#comment-10191 Janaka Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:09:34 +0000 http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/#comment-10191 We are from Moneragala and you can get more info thru our site www.lakaruna.org last week we experienced online training and it was a great event. Please visit http://www.lakaruna.org/online_computer_training/index.html I hope your group will be arranging this kind of event to improve our knowledge of Free Software Movement. We are from Moneragala and you can get more info thru our site
http://www.lakaruna.org
last week we experienced online training and it was a great event.
Please visit
http://www.lakaruna.org/online_computer_training/index.html

I hope your group will be arranging this kind of event to improve our knowledge of
Free Software Movement.

]]> By: Lonely Coder http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/comment-page-1/#comment-9923 Lonely Coder Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:12:20 +0000 http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/#comment-9923 Well it would have been a great event I missed it so darely coz of ma exams. Thanks to FOSS n SLIIT for bringin in the geek to the land like no other. RMS would have loved Sri Lanken Wade I gues.. I'm a second year at IIT having great passion towards Web n Opensource Software. Well it would have been a great event I missed it so darely coz of ma exams. Thanks to FOSS n SLIIT for bringin in the geek to the land like no other. RMS would have loved Sri Lanken Wade I gues.. I’m a second year at IIT having great passion towards Web n Opensource Software.

]]> By: Lahiru http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/comment-page-1/#comment-9889 Lahiru Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:07:38 +0000 http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/#comment-9889 @Pugnacious: Hope you got the answer, ;) @Pugnacious:
Hope you got the answer, ;)

]]> By: Russel http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/comment-page-1/#comment-9878 Russel Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:02:32 +0000 http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/#comment-9878 Open source is for Geeks. unusable. Open source is for Geeks. unusable.

]]> By: arc http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/comment-page-1/#comment-9877 arc Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:58:53 +0000 http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/#comment-9877 @Pugnacious You really miss the point. --------------- Isn’t most Open Source software just clones of existing products, with a few changes to make them better, mostly borrowed from closed-source software? -------------- First of all we are part of the free software movement, the open source movement is a different one with different goals. The MAIN goal of free software is to bring freedom to users. After we achieved this goal we care about adding more features. ---- Firefox stole tabbed browsing from Opera, but there were precursors even before that. OpenOffice is an inferior copy of Microsoft Office. ---- Talking about "stealing software" could be misleading. If a proprietary software has a feature and we think its important, we add it but this happens AFTER we developed a free substitute to that software. We consider OpenOffice better than MS Office beacuse OO brings freedom to users, MS Office does not. If you think OO lacks some features you can develop them. We're waiting for your code. :) Free software movement cares about FREEDOM while the open source movement cares only about the "development model". The GNU project was born on 1984 to create a free operating system, to bring freedom to its users. We think freedom is more important than technological enhancements. @Pugnacious
You really miss the point.

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Isn’t most Open Source software just clones of existing products, with a few changes to make them better, mostly borrowed from closed-source software?
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First of all we are part of the free software movement, the open source movement is a different one with different goals.
The MAIN goal of free software is to bring freedom to users. After we achieved this goal we care about adding more features.

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Firefox stole tabbed browsing from Opera, but there were precursors even before that. OpenOffice is an inferior copy of Microsoft Office.
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Talking about “stealing software” could be misleading. If a proprietary software has a feature and we think its important, we add it but this happens AFTER we developed a free substitute to that software.
We consider OpenOffice better than MS Office beacuse OO brings freedom to users, MS Office does not.
If you think OO lacks some features you can develop them. We’re waiting for your code. :)

Free software movement cares about FREEDOM while the open source movement cares only about the “development model”.
The GNU project was born on 1984 to create a free operating system, to bring freedom to its users.
We think freedom is more important than technological enhancements.

]]> By: chanux http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/comment-page-1/#comment-9876 chanux Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:51:21 +0000 http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/#comment-9876 @pug & please feel free to check IE's UA string. @pug & please feel free to check IE’s UA string.

]]> By: chanux http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/comment-page-1/#comment-9875 chanux Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:49:19 +0000 http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/#comment-9875 @pug I'm gonna patent the way I walk.So beware when you are walking. You'd probably be sued for copying my property. -- Think wise man. @pug I’m gonna patent the way I walk.So beware when you are walking. You’d probably be sued for copying my property. — Think wise man.

]]> By: Laknath http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/comment-page-1/#comment-9870 Laknath Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:15:43 +0000 http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/#comment-9870 @Pugnacious, Where are 100% innovative things in the world ? Everything copy, but successful copies are the things who do copying better + little something of their own. @Pugnacious, Where are 100% innovative things in the world ? Everything copy, but successful copies are the things who do copying better + little something of their own.

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