Freed.In

This is a different post and sort of offers a overview on my experience if promoting open source software (OSS).

Are you interested in Open Source? A simple question like that may leave your partner in conversation with a blank. At least that is the reaction I get from most of my friends and acquaintances.

Then I go a little further and fill in that I am talking about software. Some lights begin to shine. Some glimmer of understanding start to show. BUT still there is whole lot of confusion, “Eeh..you mean like software from Nehru Place?”

No, no, no! Not piracy but open source! Open source like in “Muft and mukt software.” The next penny drops and I can see behind the eyes outright rejection “if it is free its got to be worthless.”

Now I come up with supplemented argument of how most secure services run on Open Source. But proof of pudding is in eating it. So I put forward the argument “While most of Open Source Software does not run on Window platform there are few and best is to try out OpenOffice.”

Some, very few, do actually take the plunge and try out. A even smaller percentage actually want to go further. And those who do become champions of OSS.

This post is for this small minority. What next?

What the hell is open source? Why should you be bothered? What it means to me? For all your questions one upcoming even is Freed.In Invest in little time and I am sure that there is going to be lots of return than you ever expected.

PS: (07-08-07)

A post on Slashdot provides with a very interesting toung in cheek comment by Mostly a lurker (634878) on paid versus free:

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… why would you give it away for free”?”

Very valid argument. Incidentally, any of you with girlfriends that are providing you with free sex should carefully consider this. The streetwalkers in your nearest city must be better because otherwise they would not be able to charge for it. While your girlfriend might be OK for some amateur playing around, if you are looking to become serious and marry, you need to find someone who is professional about this.

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