Re: Talk for OSiM Asia

["Stormy Peters" <stormy gnome org>]

I picked the word competition because in my experience most of this market is new to open source software and they're really worried open source means giving everything away, having no business advantage and no way to compete. There are obviously lots of businesses that successfully use open source software and compete in their industries. Note that they compete with proprietary solutions as well as other vendors that use open source software.

Stormy

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Andrew Savory <me andrewsavory com> wrote:

Hi Stormy,

2008/11/6 Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>:

> How about this?
>
> GNOME Mobile: Open source enabling collaboration and competition
>
> Still a bit catchy but it might make a point. (I was surprised at OSiM World
> how many people in the audience didn't know much at all about open source
> software.)
>

If I were pedantic ... I'd suggest "Open Source enabling collaboration
and innovation". I see OS as a good way to reduce competition (in
favour of "co-opetition"), rather than enabling competion. When you
have good software commons solutions, it's typically better to evolve
and innovate on the commons rather than to set up competing solutions
and hope for survival of the fittest, no?

(Unless of course you mean enabling GNOME Mobile to compete with
proprietary solutions, in which case I totally agree!)


Andrew.
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