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H S Rai,<br>
I think that time and resources expended on this topic is a waste.
Even if the cost factors were not in Koha's favor, flexibility and
customization dictate the usage of non proprietary software. Here in
the United States, most in libraries and academia are so brainwashed
(maybe intellectually lazy would be a better term) that even when I
offer to set up open soft software for free and give them the server,
they still prefer to take the lazy way out and pay exorbitant sums for
inferior proprietary software. I have virtually given up such endeavors
here in the US. They will have to suffer the consequences of such
insane decisions when their economy inevitably contracts due to worker
laziness and incompetence. I for example am working in the Central
Asian region, where management is very receptive since they do not have
any other choice (no funds available for proprietary software). Much
like the farmer who has to build it himself, they will either have to
bite the bullet and use Open Source Software, or never enter the
information technology age. A Chinese proverb states "do not cast your
pearls in front of swine" and we should not waste our time on such
endeavors. Every resource spent on improving the software is a much
better option since it will help people who are willing to use it,
instead of wasting our precious time trying to convince people who
should know better.<br>
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Gerry<br>
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<pre wrap="">Yesterday at 5:24am -0800 BWS Johnson wrote:
I thank Paul POULAIN for providing detail about contribution by
different developers.
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<pre wrap=""> >So, some comparison of this sort (cost to benefit ratio, total
>cost of ownership etc), which may help potential user or
>decision maker to take infomed decision and not be misguided by
>marketing executive of proprietary software
That's not an easy question at all.
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Agreed. But if respectable members on this list pool their
information to have a such type of white paper, then that will boost
usage and promotion of Koha.
Is there something like "Koha advocacy"?
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