i am quite surprised that INDIA does not have its own operating system which they could call it their own.. sure you have linux(but it was not created by an indian). indians have so much of talent why not create an operating system which we proudly can call it our own.
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:12:25 +0530, Nagarjuna G. nagarjun@gnowledge.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 04:38:39PM +0530, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Vickram Crishna wrote:
At 12:03 PM +0530 8/17/04, quasi wrote:
But -- all the new PC's they got of late come with Licenced Windows XP. These are purchased by the university directly. Not only that it seems that recently the Univ has acquired a *site* licence for MS Office 2000. :(
We must use this golden opportunity to publicise this retrograde step
- Venky, do what you can and so will I. Quasi, please try and get
names of people involved with the decision, so we can point some working journos at them to ask uncomfortable questions.
I'll go across to Mumbai University and speak to them. I guess Nagarjuna's words will also carry a lot of weight due to his academic credentials.
i lost the context, can someone post the original message, off list.
Nagarjuna