[OLPC India] BJP on FOSS fence: Campaigns vs Markets

[Satish Jha]

I am not sure if campaigns have changed purchasing policies in India. Will
be glad to know about some examples.

That said, "Sugar on a Stick" is good idea and sounds fun as a name as well,
amost like a lollypop..

One key aspect of open source or not for profit initiatives is that they do
not recognise the value of sales and marketing. But consider this. When a
buyer has multiple choices, multiple vendors making a case by every possible
means about the superiority and value of their product, the campaigns
become more of a noise and reverberate among those interested in them until
they gain a critical mass and momentum to override the market logic.

Then again, campaigns making technology choices have a huge question mark
hanging over them.. A bit like Taliban imposing values on the rest of the
society... Choices need to be made through a process that allow various
competing questions to be addressed and resolved through an agreeable set of
criteria..

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> Maybe we can start a campaign to run Sugar on a Stick or Sugar on QEMU
> on these machines...
>
> -walter
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Bhargav Prasanna
> <bhargavprasanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We already had an extensive discussion about the BJP thingy on our LUG
> list.
> > Its really sad that such a big party should say one thing whilst doing
> > something completely in contrast (I know. Most parties do that today.)
> >
> > Frankly, you cannot believe them. While they talk about FOSS, they use
> > flash in their websites.
> > A Firefox Tools-> Page Info -> Media tab for
> > hypertext<colon><slash><slash>www<dot>lkadvani<dot>in yields enough
> > information.
> > --
> --
>
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