Extract from Wikipedia Brahmanical Tradition Cosmogony and the Antediluvian history [ edit ] According to the Vedic traditions, human history proceeds in cycles, dependent on the evolutions and dissolutions of the world. Time is divided into four ages – Krita Yuga , Treta Yuga , Dvapara Yuga and Kali Yuga – collectively forming one Maha Yuga . Seventy-one Mahayugas form a Manvantara , a period of time over which a Manu presides. In each cycle, this Manu is the first man and also the first king and lawgiver. Every Manvantara has its own set of Indra , gods and seven sages. Fourteen Manvantara create a Kalpa (aeon) , after which the creation comes to a close in a periodical destruction called Pralaya . After that, the creation starts all over again in an endless cycle of evolutions and dissolutions. The traditions relate that the present Kalpa is called Varaha . Out of the fourteen manvantaras ...
The letter from Microsoft founder Bill Gates to the Open Source community when they developed Linux operating system which was an open source operating system condemning the idea of giving products for free to customers and depriving the developers of money who put their hard work and man hours in developing the product is not a sensible thought from a business standpoint and he further iterated that the primary function of any enterprise is to make money and keep all stakeholders happy and paid for their work which can only be done when the software is sold in the market.Gates also went to say that the open source means no one can improve the software.(May be he is referring to a situation when there is no consensus amongst the developers on what features to implement or how the solution needs to be designed)
The Open Source community has given a reply back that this is a revolution and is against the established monopoly in the market and the developers involved in developing the Linux operating system were developing the software out of passion and not to make money and also a single enterprise making a lot of money and holding a monopoly in a market is not a good thing for the market.They said that the software should be available to most people and should not be made only available to businesses.The open source software can be improved easily by anyone and also it is the enterprise like Microsoft and its product operating system which is difficult to improve as only Microsoft can improve it.
The book and the article by Eric S Raymond the Cathedral and the Bazaar delves deeper into this debate and the summary of this book is as below taken from Wikipedia
"The Cathedral and the Bazaar"[edit]
The essay contrasts two different free software development models:
- The Cathedral model, in which source code is available with each software release, but code developed between releases is restricted to an exclusive group of software developers. GNU Emacs and GCC were presented as examples.
- The Bazaar model, in which the code is developed over the Internet in view of the public. Raymond credits Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project, as the inventor of this process. Raymond also provides anecdotal accounts of his own implementation of this model for the Fetchmailproject.
The essay's central thesis is Raymond's proposition that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" (which he terms Linus's Law): the more widely available the source code is for public testing, scrutiny, and experimentation, the more rapidly all forms of bugs will be discovered. In contrast, Raymond claims that an inordinate amount of time and energy must be spent hunting for bugs in the Cathedral model, since the working version of the code is available only to a few developers.
The company Tesla has made all its proprietary technology open source so that anyone can use it and further enhance it and thus allow Open Innovation to happen instead of a Closed Innovation model which companies have been following since many years.The idea is that if we follow Open Source or Open Innovation framework then the better product development happens quickly and is beneficial for the industry and the consumer.
As per the Disruption theory I learnt at Harvard Business School over a period of time the industry migrates from an integrated approach to a modular approach and when this happens then the players who migrate to the most valued product in the industry make most of the profits.
There are many open source eCommerce solutions also on the market place like Magento and Woocommerce and Open Cart too.These softwares can be used and Open Innovation Framework followed to create value to the industry and consumer.
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