While Linux had been going on diverse and diverging pathways over the last decade there are significant converging strategies developing in the World Wide Web.
More and more people are using it everyday it has come to stay with the trends of the time.
Telecom's innovations are coming to its peak that less and less people (except the young) are willing to invest and pay for everything they use or partake.
Ordinary people are more conscious of the price since everything else is going up in prices.
This is where V.O.I.P will take a center stage in couple of years since it is cost effective and one does not have to pay twice for the same article or service.
Similarly Television channels are offered through the pulse line of telephone and slowly but surely everything is becoming digitalized.
Analog years are numbered just as the music turntables of the past.
Similarly Video formats would change.
This is where Linux will and can steam role and go forward faster than our imagination can take us.
In the third world we are not yet ready for this scenario changing but billions of consumers are there in the East in Asia and China.
That is where the profits are going to be.
In time come everything is going to be computer generated and only Linux can penetrate all these markets.
Linux have to move in different directions while converging on the desktop market. Server market and netbooks (rather O.E.Ms).
Live CDs showed the convergence pathway but what about the divergent pathway.
1. V.O.I.P is one pathway.
2. Video Generation (New Fast and reliable web format) and its different formats.
3. TV and Web TV is another pathway.
4. Education and Multimedia is another pathway.
5. Cloud Computing is yet another.
6. Business packages and MySQL is another pathway.
7. Science. Technology and Mathematics is another.
8. Web Utilities (like Google's Chrome)is another and sports is another.
9. Venture into Government and Universities is another.
10. Sports and Entertainment (Music and Films) is another
11. Web Storage is another since Linux will work tirelessly without breaking the system or the hardware.
There are many more avenues for Linux enthusiasts.
Linux also should have a market philosophy.
Merging with big companies and committing harakiri is not the way forward.
Linux should generate reasonable income to its developers and community.
Just like medical service operates the vaccination and community health should be free but people who get sick with indulgence (alcohol and cigarettes and unconventional life style should pay or should have a reasonable health insurance).
In other words people who can afford it should pay reasonable price for the service.
If one gives something free its market value will go down. This is seen in our country very well. We give free education and after 11 years of teaching English they cannot utter a sentence with 10 words clearly. This is true for Mathematics and Science and there is no training in IT.
Do not follow this stupid idea in the name cheap socialism.
For Linux workers (like labour laws) there should be some sort of compensation for the time and effort of the community and the developers. This can take the form of cooperative movement at internet level.
If one's idea is quoted and referred there should be a way of paying some royalty value through a cooperative fund. The fund should be developed from donations and charities. This has to be formulated with some strong checks and balances otherwise one rogue (we have our Sakwithies, here) will drain it overnight.
Then only it will go from strength to strength.
If we have repeated episodes of economic crisis one after another crisis the community will strangle itself and quietly dwindle it's human resources (which is natural with the present day youth) and the big companies will jump in for the kill.
We should not let this happen. We should be mindful.
More and more people are using it everyday it has come to stay with the trends of the time.
Telecom's innovations are coming to its peak that less and less people (except the young) are willing to invest and pay for everything they use or partake.
Ordinary people are more conscious of the price since everything else is going up in prices.
This is where V.O.I.P will take a center stage in couple of years since it is cost effective and one does not have to pay twice for the same article or service.
Similarly Television channels are offered through the pulse line of telephone and slowly but surely everything is becoming digitalized.
Analog years are numbered just as the music turntables of the past.
Similarly Video formats would change.
This is where Linux will and can steam role and go forward faster than our imagination can take us.
In the third world we are not yet ready for this scenario changing but billions of consumers are there in the East in Asia and China.
That is where the profits are going to be.
In time come everything is going to be computer generated and only Linux can penetrate all these markets.
Linux have to move in different directions while converging on the desktop market. Server market and netbooks (rather O.E.Ms).
Live CDs showed the convergence pathway but what about the divergent pathway.
1. V.O.I.P is one pathway.
2. Video Generation (New Fast and reliable web format) and its different formats.
3. TV and Web TV is another pathway.
4. Education and Multimedia is another pathway.
5. Cloud Computing is yet another.
6. Business packages and MySQL is another pathway.
7. Science. Technology and Mathematics is another.
8. Web Utilities (like Google's Chrome)is another and sports is another.
9. Venture into Government and Universities is another.
10. Sports and Entertainment (Music and Films) is another
11. Web Storage is another since Linux will work tirelessly without breaking the system or the hardware.
There are many more avenues for Linux enthusiasts.
Linux also should have a market philosophy.
Merging with big companies and committing harakiri is not the way forward.
Linux should generate reasonable income to its developers and community.
Just like medical service operates the vaccination and community health should be free but people who get sick with indulgence (alcohol and cigarettes and unconventional life style should pay or should have a reasonable health insurance).
In other words people who can afford it should pay reasonable price for the service.
If one gives something free its market value will go down. This is seen in our country very well. We give free education and after 11 years of teaching English they cannot utter a sentence with 10 words clearly. This is true for Mathematics and Science and there is no training in IT.
Do not follow this stupid idea in the name cheap socialism.
For Linux workers (like labour laws) there should be some sort of compensation for the time and effort of the community and the developers. This can take the form of cooperative movement at internet level.
If one's idea is quoted and referred there should be a way of paying some royalty value through a cooperative fund. The fund should be developed from donations and charities. This has to be formulated with some strong checks and balances otherwise one rogue (we have our Sakwithies, here) will drain it overnight.
Then only it will go from strength to strength.
If we have repeated episodes of economic crisis one after another crisis the community will strangle itself and quietly dwindle it's human resources (which is natural with the present day youth) and the big companies will jump in for the kill.
We should not let this happen. We should be mindful.
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