On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Evans Ikua
<ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
Take your time Aki. I will be watching this thread for just that. We do not fear or hate competition. Everyone has a right to his opinion and his choice of technology. I have no problem whatsoever with your choices. We are also consolidating our act and we are looking for worthy competition.
Nice to hear this am very glad to hear that FOSS is also getting its core act on the right direction. Our proprietary group focus, still un-born, will have targets on the desktop and web levels. I don't think we have the level of people to write anything at the network or hardware layers, but who knows--things can change. The winner at the end is not only the coder but also the members of the public. :-)
On the other hand, my presumption is that local Open Source Developers are actually doing a great job globally, and that the proprietary developers can not make a similar claim. I may be wrong, but I need proof to the contrary. I think your earlier comments came out looking like you were setting up the two divides for a pissing contest.
I disagree with you that Open Source are doing a great job in the same way that I fully agree proprietary coders in kenya are doing nothing. As a hobbyist coder I'm not into a marketing war with anyone, we will get to the marketing wars once we have a strong proprietary coders group. If you read my top 3 comments on this thread, I wrote the reasons I was putting up the thread, and I found it very interesting to have discovered what I've so far i.e what drove coders to levels with what motivations. Has this thread provided me the motivation or inspiration? A few did and I was looking for something deeper from people who enjoy working at deeper level of code but unfortunately I can only find on the web.
The road has just started...
Some thots. :-)