1) Free Software movement is not interested in TCO. We value freedom higher than anything else.
2) The whole issue has been dealth with by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh in his essay "License fees and GDP per capita: The case for open source in developing countries" http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ghosh/index.html Please look at the section "Total cost of ownership and low labour costs"
Sarath, Can you please look write a letter to "Economic Times" making use of the above information, and any other information that you have.
Thanks, Krishna
--- Sarath Lakshman sarathlakshman@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear friends,
Please look at the news heading in economic times newspaper on wednesday April 6th.
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'Linux, Windows have similar maintenance cost'
Most US business say there is very little difference between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a Linux-based corporate computing environment........news follows....
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Collect the Economic Times of 6th April to know abt this news report.
Regards..
SarathLakshman
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