Suraj Kumar wrote:
yes. I had once written a letter to the editor of the Hindu about the importance of free software and the role it can play in education. It came up. but to what benefit?
Maybe a fullscale article would be nice. I am willing to work with you on this. It has been on my mind for some time now. Can you forward me the letter ?
All of this means the politicians get to launder lesser money and that means smaller scope for their corruption to flourish.
I think we always keep underestimating the power of democracy. I am currently working in Synapse, where we have Dr. Gurunandan Bhatt, who was one of the first people to bring GNU/Linux to India. I came to knpw from the people here that he used to go and meet government officers and persuade them to see the light. This was so effective that people from M$ came looking for him to Synapse :-).