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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Transforming power of Open Source?

Attended a Technology Conference today where the theme was "Open source will save the world" and the only free stuff that was handed out was a copy of Microsoft OneNote. Hmm....

The sessions were pretty good. Geoffrey Moore did a very interesting talk about Drawin, Innovation and Inertia. The panel on opensource was kind of lame. Some people can't get over the Redmond bashing. Some dude mentioned the purchasing power parity equivalent price of Windows for a Bangladeshi would be about $60000. Now, I looked up the price of SuSE 9.3 - student edition is about $59 bucks. Wonder what does that translate to a Bangladeshi - possibly, $40000. The CEO of RHAT made a compelling and very passionate case for subscriptions model licensing. The Yahoo COO almost took us back to 1999, talking about "eyeballs", ad. revenue and one id that will unlock the world. Hey, I ain't gonna fall for that again...

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