A Russian Elementary School Teacher, Alexander Ponosov, challenges Microsoft for its software domination. The case came up when he was taken into trial for his installing pirated Microsoft software in his school computers. For his act, he is dubbed a hero and earning great fame. He gets support not only from the Russians but also from President Vladimir Putin and the former, Michael Gorbachev.

Of his case with the court, Ponosov opposes the software giant and has declared a lobbying group for downing Russia’s dependency on the software from Microsoft and promoting the use of free open-source software. Ponosov who lives in a remote village in Perm, Ural heights stated that the giant software domination might threat national security of Russia. “Our dependency on western product brings about a serious risk that will result in our loss of independence” said he. The Russian press analogizes the matter as a battle between David against Goliath.

In line with what Ponosov is doing, online practitioners are now campaigning the use of free open-source software. The practice benefits both the developers and the users. Besides, it enables a wider community to access to the computer technology that at the later stage accelerates equality of development. The developers earn income from services of training, consultation, maintenance or upgrading. While the users are able to easily keep abreast with the rapid change in technology of, especially, computer development.

To a businessman or an entrepreneur, experiencing falling is a bitter thing. A business which has been established with full of spirit, sweat, capital, energy, dream, and sacrifice ends up in vain, just in a minute. As a result, it drags our passion down to the brink of desperation.

Does falling end the chance to succeed?. As mentioned previously, falling or failure is just a test to level up our degree. The more falling we experience, the more successful we will be. Just like a ladder, the more ladders we step on, the higher lever we will reach. But, how to make ourselves realize the good lesson behind our falling and so we can get up again?.


Some tips to get up after falling are as follows:

1.Be sincere
Being sincere is a weapon to encounter any of ordeals. By being sincere, we can control our anger or frustration and let go of all grudges. Sincerity stimulates us to realize that all we own is just a consignment from God. There will be a time God takes it back. Above all, sincerity leads us to acknowledge that everything in the world is just temporary.
2.Be honest
Honesty is the best policy. By being honest, we dare to admit that not all the steps we have taken have been based on a good and comprehensive planning. Perhaps, when we started the business, we did it on emotional push rather than the rational one. We, at that time, just wanted to show off to our colleagues that we had a capacity to have a business. We did not really take a comparative study of the business we chose. Being honest, therefore, will lead us to evaluate all what we have done for a better future step.
3.Be optimistic
Being optimistic leads us to always have a hope. It supplies dreams we can fantasize. Optimism is a very important trait we have to have in life because optimism will always energize us to continue our life tour. So, when falling happens, optimism pulls our knees to get up.
4.Be open-minded
Open-mindedness enables us to always welcome any idea or input from others. Being open-minded makes us always learn and realize that the more we know, the more we don’t know. Just like drinking sea water, the more we drink, the more we don’t drink. Learning is very important for a businessman or an entrepreneur to update the knowledge about how to run, manage, or better the business.
5.Be generous
Being generous means being ready sharing with others. As mentioned in point 1, all we have in our life is just consignment from God. And there is a part in it that belongs to others that we must share, be it in the form of money, knowledge, skill or support. The more we share with others, the more God gives to us and the easier our life will be.
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How can Fidel Castro be so strong sustaining his throne? How can Bill Gates establish Microsoft making him the richest man on earth?. How can Barrack Obama be leading in the race of the United States presidency? No other words to represent their phenomena but a dream.

Dream pushed pharaoh to build the spectacular pyramids. Dream inspired Syah Jahan to build Taj Mahal. Dream took Neil Amstrong to land on the moon. Dream made the perseverant Palestinians struggle to reach their independence from Israel. And it is a dream that convinces every hero to sacrifice his or her life for the countries. Even it is a dream too that motivates our parents to declare their marriage and so we could be born. Thus, it must be our dream that will enable us to survive in coping with all the adversities of life.

In today’s global uncertainty, in which economic crisis, war, poverty, hunger or homicide are our daily businesses, our dream still motivates us to live on. Our dream to reach success is still nagging. Our dream has become and will always become the stimulant that awakens our sense of being successful; a success that will give us peace and prosperity.

So, never mess up your dream, no matter how simple it seems, because it is that will help you shine your life spirit on a foggy day.