Entrepreneur, marketer and open source solutions provider.
Sachin is the founder, director of Ashnik, based in Singapore. Ashnik provides open source IT solutions around infrastructure, cloud and social media for enterprises.
Sachin brings rich experience in building businesses. Has worked in IT industry for over 25 years and has provided solutions to Banking, Telecom and Government sectors. Has played a major role in establishing Red Hat and open source business in India. Has been invited to speak on open source and its growth in many public fora such as Linux Asia, Dataquest, NASSCOM, CNBC etc. Has worked closely with Central and local Governments to help them adopt opensource.
Sachin has deep interest in understanding human minds. He is always looking for ways to harness human potential and becoming better person.
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Apart from the issues with IIPA's painting of open souce as anti intellectual property, this article also highlights the need for all of us to communicate right message to uninitiated. It is absolutely important to communicate the benefits of open source software, the licensing (GPL...) of it and the high moral values behind it.
We are doing it in our way in Singapore. Hoping to make it more impactfull around the region.
Cheers
Sachin
Hi Chris,
It is always nice to read your posts.
I wanted to focus on the two questions that you raised :
1) Can we still love Apple and consider ourselves open source true believers at the same time?
2) How can something so closed be so darned good? How do we explain the Apple exception?
Intrinsic feeling in these questions is that products not made in open innovation way can not be good.
I think fundamentally this assumption is one sided. There is no harm in accepting the fact that "closed way" of developing has produced wonderful product.
Though this does not mean that it is the right way for all.
Can I continue to love Apple and still be open source believer? I see no problem in that. Because ultimate objective is to make to make better products, better solutions in all aspects. Today Apple is doing it, though in a completely different manner. But I believe open source, open innovation is the way forward. So it does not shatter my confidence.