Prakash Advani's Blog

The currently global economy seems to be getting better for Open Source. After enterprises adopting Open Source now software outsourcing Major says:

“We won’t have as much work for all our employees right now, so we’re encouraging them to contribute to projects on open source and do more innovative work,”

Nandan Nilekan, Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and CEO Infosys.

This is a great way to polish their employees programming skills at the same time keep them busy.

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The BJP, India’s biggest opposition party has released its IT vision which states that they will use Open Source and follow Open Standards.

They also plan to give 10 Million Laptops loaded with Linux and Open Source for Rs. 10,000 US$200.

Their IT vision is very impressive and looks like its well thought out strategy talking about local hosting, higher broadband speeds, lower PC costs, single Identity and many more.

If you are interested, download the IT Vision (3.5 MB download, not a worry if you are already on Broadband

Simple business model:

• Make your product/technology popular.
• Let people start using and depending on it.
• Now extract money by suing them.
• Profit!

This is exactly what is happening with Patents, its becoming a way to extract money.

And Microsoft is using it to fight Linux.