The nightmares are getting worse!

Imagine being haunted by ghosts from your marketing and IT text books! Kotler and Keller stalking you with brands and Linus Torwalds literally drilling in open source use even in your dreams. But that's not all! Coz the nightmare does not stop when you wake up. In fact it gets worse. If that's the case with you, I share your agony. In fact, I've been going through this for three months now. The MBA research dissertation on 'Use of Open Source in Small Businesses' has not only taken over my small existence but is also threatening my open source life of fun and friends.

Three months into it, and I am still stuck at finding authors and reading crazy articles saying small businesses do not use open source. The heck of it! I know they don't, but why and what percentage, give me figures, give me references, afterall thats what the university wants to see. Else they would not waste time in putting a plagiarism charge. But no!! All I get to do is ask questions. For the past 25 years, I've been asked questions. You ask me questions, I can answer. When I was a kid, my parents' friends came over and asked me, "Little one, what's your name?" and pop came the answer "Roseline, aunty". Teachers asked "What's 10 x10?" and 100 came the answer. Been doing this for 25 years now. But no!! What happens now is I ask questions to do some research that no one may bother reading. And to top it all, I ask questions to some crazy small business owners and also pay for postage to get their replies back. How mad can it all get? Would have been much simpler if the university lecturers asked me questions like 'What is a brand and What is an SME?'. I could answer those. In fact, I can answer any questions, but ask them. Not my cup of tea.