MooPig Tech Coroner :: "Good-bye Microsoft, Hello Open Source Software"

Start-up Business Costs, eh?
Mashed articles by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 9, 2014  |  Bryan TX

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Use this article as an introduction to Open Source. It was written in 2010. But if you think about it, if the LINKS it publishes are still around today, 2014, then you might have a good indicator that these do really work.

Does Open Source mean Free? Nothing in the world is FREE... so ? What's the  real cost? All we can figure at this level of discovery is that Google Summer of Code acts as developer for many Open Source projects.

" ... Clayton Christensen, the author of The Innovators Dilemma, coined the term “disruptive innovation” to explain the “process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors (January 13, 2014. By Jeff Vance. LINK) ...”

50 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Software - Datamation: "The "Great Recession" has businesses and consumers alike looking for ways to cut costs. That includes looking for cheaper alternatives to expensive software. In most cases, open source applications offer much lower prices, even if you need to purchase paid support. With that in mind, we've put together a list of open source alternatives to software that tends to cost a lot (August 17, 2010. By Cynthia Harvey. LINK) ..."
'via Blog this'

If you are trying to go into business today Open Source could help you through the first three years ... the default years of development when you show very little profits, if you know what you are doing. Other topics that interest me:

• IT Salary Guide
• Bring Your Own Device, BOYD
• Cloud Computing in 2014: Three Key Trends
• Are You Ready to Become an Internet of Things Hero?

Downloading online Open Source can be risky. What you get when you download might be tagged with a virus or two. New softwares can mess with your databases, or your operating system, and might alter your start up. We don't know the answer to any of that. It would take a great deal of research to figure which Open Source delivers with fewest complications.

Others comment:
" ... One of the key issues with proprietary software, including free software is the lack of ability to integrate with a database. We have been using a free version of ChartGantt Ultimate which had delivered fantastic integration capabilities (Gantt Chart. March 27 2013.)..."

"...Open source is a huge success. The benefit it has achieved is that the paid software is now being developed with utmost sincerity as they always have a threat that ppl may switch to free open source alternatives. The only problem with opensource software is that ppl try to implement only cooler stuff within it and don't pay any attention to detail for user-friendliness. If opensource pays attention to user-friendliness there may be much cooler stuff happening (Gotya. September 09 2010)..."

"... First, it's nearly impossible to find prices for the very most expensive software you can buy. Many enterprise software vendors don't release their prices because they negotiate separately with each customer or because their licensing schemes are so complicated that they could never explain them adequately in less than 5,000 words.

" ... In addition, custom applications can be extremely expensive, but are also difficult to price. Because we wanted to list prices in this article, we limited ourselves to "off-the-shelf" products with relatively easy-to-find suggested retail prices (ibid. Harvey.)..."

Since 2005, "... Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source software projects... Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits..."
"... In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all. (LINK)..."

CONCLUSION
What is the real cost of Open Source for the start-up? At this point the real cost is time: time it takes to learn a new software. Learning curves for new businesses will dictate their ability to compete. If a business, or the individual, has used a licensed software in the past, he/she/it will find a similar open source software to use. If the business start-up is highly proprietary, it may require costly licensed custom software anyway.

I have a son who has successfully used Ubuntu for the last eight years in his business.


_______________________Reference
http://www.datamation.com/article.php/3898906
http://www.datamation.com/careers/it-salary-guide-2014-1.html
http://www.datamation.com/commentary/does-byod-keep-it-admins-awake-at-night.html
http://www.datamation.com/applications/are-you-ready-to-become-an-internet-of-things-hero.html
http://www.datamation.com/cloud-computing/cloud-computing-in-2014-three-key-trends.html
http://brlcad.org/
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3895081/The-75-Funnest-Open-Source-Downloads.htm%22
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3860721/65-Open-Source-Downloads-That-Could-Change-Your-Life.htm
http://www.ganttproject.biz/
https://developers.google.com/open-source/
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389650324&sr=1-1&keywords=the+innovator%27s+dilemma
https://www.apertus.org/opensource
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

2045 Grand Re-Opening of MooPig Wisdom; and Grandist Scale of Class Structure Oddity

Bourgeoisie Upper class Ruling class Nobility White-collar Petite bourgeoisie Upper middle class Creative class Gentry Blue-collar Proletariat Middle class Working class Nouveau riche/Parvenu Pink-collar Lumpenproletariat Lower middle class Lower class Old Money Gold-collar Peasant/Serf Slave class Underclass Classlessness...

MooPig is planning its Grand Re-Opening for August 29, 2045

Mistress of Ceremonies TBA: Could be the Older version of the lady pictured above

• If you are not assimilated by then, you will be, so get your Moink On!!!
• It will prove to be a Grandiose Affair with Sleds and Bells
• and, Always read the Fine Print!! Hear ye, Hear ye this Public Announcement

Funding to be Provided in receipt of its Rebate from Microsoft; pending litigations filed in the spirit of conjecture for compensations provided for in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from 1994 - 2045, blah 'd blah 'd blah 'd

"Yeah, we decided to just give it all back.. of course we kept the interest," might have said Melinda Gates in a most likely pre-re-opening meeting over some future weekend. So goes the saga of twenty-first century King Solomon, Bill Gates, and his mag-significant other, Melinda.

It's 2008, January and Fortune Magazine is reporting from the mansion just above the Gates Way to MSN copper mines of Legend. Somewhere in Washingtoniana...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had assets of $37.6 billion at end of 2007. Bill Gates just said his usual: "'Yes, we're a couple that has fun discussing fertilizer while we walk on the beach,' Bill says proudly. 'Melinda is more scientific and reads more than 99% of the people you'll ever meet,' he says" (Sellers, Patricia. January 21, 2008, FORTUNE: Melinda gates goes public. pg 44-56).

The cryptic couple apparently reviews annually around 6000 grant requests together in their chairman's office at Microsoft. The Gates Criteria for turning on a flow meter of cash to a worthy cause? "...Early on she and Bill agreed to focus on a few areas of giving, choosing where to place their money by asking two questions:

1. 'Which problems affect the most people?



2. 'And which have been neglected in the past?'" (pg 47-48)

[this is where natural snooping and curio put moopig on the $-scent for a grand-re-opening]

1. MooPig is ambiguously problematic for at least thousands, and



2. MooPig has been neglected for all of its life, past and future!

FORTUNE's Philanthropy section states: "Bill surprised Melinda on New Years Day, 1994 by arranging for Willie Nelson to perform just for them at their marriage that day." Then apparently they proceded to just-right-size their bridal house. It is reported 40,000 square feet of newlywed horror, back then: "It was a bachelor's dream and a bride's nightmare. So the bride took control and performed nu'veau riche surgery, 'If I do move in ...it's going to be like I want it to be,' said she [Melinda]" (Housing Crisis, Pg 56, paraphrased).

Melinda and Bill have a philanthropy jones: "I'm in wholesale. I'm not retail," says Bill. (pg 56) While Melinda says "A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing," per Warren Buffet's philosophy. This translates into "giving 95% of their fortune away within their lifetimes," says Fortune. [See also: Warren Buffet's bequest in same article, pg 54]

MooPig, sitting right here, says "Huh?"

"'My fatal flaw?' Melinda says laughing during [FORTUNE's] third and final interview. She sometimes wishes for a simpler life" (pg 56). We the editors at MooPig speculate she wants the simpler life 5% of the time, and goes for the Queen of Philanthropy 95% of the time. [See Also: Ima Hogg, Hogg Philanthropy]

I submit locked in this story is the Hilton Syndrome that follows nouveau riche throughout history. Poor Bill and Melinda. And what about their children? Can Melinda plan for the ensuing spouses of her children? Will her daughters all marry one-legged veterans of foreign wars, in support of the cause? MooPig asks the hard questions. Will Melinda's sons pay dowries to have and husband Bush-women from the Kalahari? Lord help them all. [See also: Hiltons giveaway +- 95% of Paris's inheritance; must be a trend]

So how does this interview end? "She [Melinda] was giving herself a pep talk. 'I told myself , "But I do know enough."' She [had] completed her goal for the day: calling for the eradication of one of the worst diseases the world has ever known [malaria]. Tomorrow another goal. Maybe it will be even bigger."

[Weee--doggie, Jethro, start up the motorized buggy ..I swear that is the final words of the article] (pg 56).

Even though all is fair in war and philanthropy, and even though I could not be having this orgy of opinionated moink pig latin in here via the Internet without Microsoft, and even though metaphor is mightier than the pen is... I think Melinda's fatal flaw is "Brown pant suits," and the worst disease in our world is "nouveau riche philanthropy, along with the first signs of incontinence."

"'Bill is an awkward guy,' says Warren Buffet, a close friend of the couple. 'He's lopsided, but less lopsided since he's with Melinda.'" (pg 54)

Resistance is futile. >pd/final draft2

References

Sellers, Patricia. January 21, 2008, FORTUNE: Melinda gates goes public. pg 44-56

Whaley, Arthur L. 2006. Sage Foundation: An Objective Rating Form to Evaluate Grant Proposals to the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, Abstract: vol 30 # 6, retrieved from http://erx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/30/6/803 .

©Frank, Robert L . June 24, 2007; Sunday Times, Bookfirst, Paris Hilton syndrome and how to avoid it. The one problem the super-rich can’t solve with money? What to do with their messed up kids, Extracted from Richistan by Robert L Frank to be published by Piatkus Books on July 2; retireve from: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/~/article1976765.ece.