"sooraj" == soorajdathan <sooraj> writes:
sooraj> The main reason for the growth of free s/w in india may be sooraj> the large amount of advertisement and support for sooraj> proprietery s/ given by local Computer centers and sooraj> educational institutions. Away from big cities, (I don't sooraj> know what are the current circumstances outside kerala), sooraj> no computer institute tries to teach free s/w. Instead sooraj> they give large amount of advertisement for Office,Vb, VC, sooraj> ASP, Oracle etc. The reason is that the institutes wants sooraj> profit and they think that they can get a high profit only sooraj> through teaching MS products. sooraj> [snip]
They don't think: they know that they can make better profits by teaching Windows.
My criterion for judging how popular a software is through market demand. And market demand is easy to gauge through the employment ads.
In my 10 years or whatever of scanning ads, I think I must have seen exactly 3 that mentioned Linux and none that mentioned MySQL, PostgreSQL, gcc, Emacs or Apache. Admittedly I haven't been doing it too diligently, but 99.99% of the market appears to be for people familiar with various proprietary softwares. Who the H*ll is going to promote Linux courses then?
Regards,
-- Raju