Second that, can see the improvements, appreciate the efforts. Hope your business plans include an ad-free donation option.
Logging in posting after a loooooong time, like many other folks.
"The practice of soaking the rich for exorbitantly-priced luxury goods/services in order to fund technological progress is one of my favorite features of capitalism. -pavon"
That will make a great quote. I like the favorite feature part a lot.
- Intervention is tricky, therefore should be minimal - Intervention should not stiffle choice for either the consumer or the business
An example: (half-baked thoughts, don't pick on them). Why give a monopoly to electricity, water, sewage, cable and phone line companies. Why not a single monoply to simply maintain 3 or four ducts for different purposes, where its easy and cheap for any company to lay its own wire or pipe. Arguably its easier for the goverment to fix the price for the ducts than phone lines or cables.
Its not infeasible, in Bangalore (and other cities in India) we have three wireline phone companies who lay their own lines! So why not multiple power supplies especially when they don't have to dig just lease the right to lay their lines through the common duct.
Of course this is not in the interest of the powerfull entrenched players who have already laid their infrastructure and are holding that as entry barriers to competition.
20 years back thats what people might have said about Microsoft and IBM - IBM makes in a week what Microsoft makes in a quarter or year.:-)
I am not saying that the open source business model is a winner, it may still fizzle out. But the trouble is if you wait till a business model is proven, then it may be too late and it won't be easy to get in. The trick is to spot a winner early on. Certainly the open source business model is a serious candidate.
Over here in India, my grandchildren may ask, "Visa to work where? USA? Where's that?":-)
But seriously I don't think its going to happen. So many of my friends and relatives still prefer US. Even those who have been laid off an year back are still searching for a job in the US. When they could easliy have found a job back here.
Its not the salary, for 1/5th the salary you can afford a similar lifestyle in India. And thanks to our huge population you can afford a chauffeur, a cook, a babysitter, help for laundry, cleaning and what not...
Then, why? If you are rich you want to live in a posh area, extend that to the country. I doubt if the impact of the newly added 5 to 10 million IT workers is enough to make India wealthy.
OTOH, if you don't think material wealth is everything and are not depressed by poverty (or rather lack of wealth), not upset by chaos, don't mind people giving you funny looks, then ridiculous as it may seem, try working in India!
I have seen many cool product announcements in India, especially during
the boom times. Most have fizzled, some are struggling. Slashdot has
also carried some articles: Kaii, Simputer
I have rarely seen any of these products being sold and used significantly. (I am from Bangalore, India).
I would say India has not yet acquired the ability to develop and market
complete embedded high technology products. But soon we may get there.
Its a dream for many geeks in India that once a few products click. It
would open the flood gates of Indian product innovations.
Hope the Slashdot crowd will wish us good luck.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Second that, can see the improvements, appreciate the efforts. Hope your business plans include an ad-free donation option. Logging in posting after a loooooong time, like many other folks.
But Auto Rickshaws are not outlawed (and are called Autos or Rickshaws by many)
Checkout Kivy/Python, you can be up and running in an hour or two. Also check blog for your kids.
Believe me, I started out like you.
"The practice of soaking the rich for exorbitantly-priced luxury goods/services in order to fund technological progress is one of my favorite features of capitalism. -pavon"
That will make a great quote. I like the favorite feature part a lot.
> A quick google turns up 1.1 million links for the phrase "chinese exploited workers"
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Does this prove anything? Google turns up 1.69 million links for the phrase "usa exploited workers"
http://www.google.com/search?q=usa+exploited+work
Dups in comments, eh? That too from the article link given in the current posting!
Original post Or may be I should just say earlier post?
I agree with you. But building on what you say:
- Intervention is tricky, therefore should be minimal
- Intervention should not stiffle choice for either the consumer or the business
An example: (half-baked thoughts, don't pick on them). Why give a monopoly to electricity, water, sewage, cable and phone line companies. Why not a single monoply to simply maintain 3 or four ducts for different purposes, where its easy and cheap for any company to lay its own wire or pipe. Arguably its easier for the goverment to fix the price for the ducts than phone lines or cables.
Its not infeasible, in Bangalore (and other cities in India) we have three wireline phone companies who lay their own lines! So why not multiple power supplies especially when they don't have to dig just lease the right to lay their lines through the common duct.
Of course this is not in the interest of the powerfull entrenched players who have already laid their infrastructure and are holding that as entry barriers to competition.
20 years back thats what people might have said about Microsoft and IBM - IBM makes in a week what Microsoft makes in a quarter or year. :-)
I am not saying that the open source business model is a winner, it may still fizzle out. But the trouble is if you wait till a business model is proven, then it may be too late and it won't be easy to get in. The trick is to spot a winner early on. Certainly the open source business model is a serious candidate.
Over here in India, my grandchildren may ask, "Visa to work where? USA? Where's that?" :-)
But seriously I don't think its going to happen. So many of my friends and relatives still prefer US. Even those who have been laid off an year back are still searching for a job in the US. When they could easliy have found a job back here.
Its not the salary, for 1/5th the salary you can afford a similar lifestyle in India. And thanks to our huge population you can afford a chauffeur, a cook, a babysitter, help for laundry, cleaning and what not...
Then, why? If you are rich you want to live in a posh area, extend that to the country. I doubt if the impact of the newly added 5 to 10 million IT workers is enough to make India wealthy.
OTOH, if you don't think material wealth is everything and are not depressed by poverty (or rather lack of wealth), not upset by chaos, don't mind people giving you funny looks, then ridiculous as it may seem, try working in India!
I have seen many cool product announcements in India, especially during the boom times. Most have fizzled, some are struggling. Slashdot has also carried some articles: Kaii, Simputer I have rarely seen any of these products being sold and used significantly. (I am from Bangalore, India). I would say India has not yet acquired the ability to develop and market complete embedded high technology products. But soon we may get there. Its a dream for many geeks in India that once a few products click. It would open the flood gates of Indian product innovations. Hope the Slashdot crowd will wish us good luck. :-)