Great work! (even though I dont agree with you)

Thank you adnan bhai. I am grateful that you atleast liked it!

Nice job in writing this article. Good initiative.

However, research is quite poor and conclusions are all wrong.

Everyone really must understand that "Open Source is only free if your time has no value at all."

In today's digital world, time is the most valuable assest a company or a person can have. Working with loosely supported, poorly tested source of unknown origin always requires much high time commitment to get it working and maintained in production environment.

It has been proven time and again that total cost of ownership with open source is leaps and bounds higher than commercial software.

As for me, since I can't imagine buying any other non-commercial product; whether is a car, or electronics, or household appliances; the software will always have of commercial nature for me to introduce it in my personal and/or business life.

Thank you for your valuable comments. Article wasn't against propriety software and its development rather the approach was to shed light on software piracy and its effects on the industry and how to cure the disease with the options available. Its quite unfortunate to see people using these illegal copies at even bachelors or graduate level. Our deparment labs even running 90% pirated softwares. I completely aggree on the drawbacks of OSS, but in the end if we can't afford licences then its better to adopt free options rather stealing others work and being proud of.

I want to emphasize once more that the article has a very good initiative and I am very proud of you for showing such strong leadership skills at such young age.

Having said that, I still think that the answer to cure software piracy is not free software. Just like the answer to car theft is not to get a lot of out-of-job mechanis to volunteer their times to make free cars for everyone.

I do strongly believe that software is very expensive these days. It needs to get cheaper, much much cheaper so that everyday people in developing countries can purchase it within their budgets.

Looking at the short history of software development, it is apparant that software is mostly developed in advanced countries where the quality of life is higher and so is their currency valuation. Since software development is extremely dependent on labor hours, the expensive labor rates in USA and Europe has always caused the price of software to be higher for the rest of the world. In fact, the price is software is very high even for comman people in USA and Europe. This problem is coupled with lack of strong competition from software makers from developing countries causes the large software vendors to dictate their prices.

The answer, in my humble opinion, is the increase in large and small software vendors in developing countries. The software still needs to be closed source and completely commercial in nature. I am confident that lower labor rates and increasingly skilled workforce in these countries will play a significant role in reducing the price of software for everyone. Until then, let's not get bogged down by the false promises of open source and focus on commercializing software in the developing countries.