On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:14:39 +0530, Amish Munshi lists@munshi.biz wrote:
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 10:19:25AM +0530, Vickram Crishna wrote:
I do hope that some or all of you agree.
Second if u think from and end users point of view this does not fit well. Take an example of Gaim.It does not support voice chat for MSN or yahoo. Take the esxample for MS OFFICE.There are people who send out resumes or any such material thru cyber cafes.There are some last minute formatting needed.And when these people find some other OS they would get frustrated.Some of my resumes don't open up properly in OpenOffice.There are may such things which needs to be very much compatilble with MS thing. I myself have been using linux for the past few years(without dual boot).But whenever i need to seds resume i(people explicitly ask MS Word format only)I get pissed off. It's not only about one end getting converted to GNU. Many a times cyber waalas also have gaming parlours.What about that?Are there enough mind blowing games in Linux to convince them to convert? Regarding haftas they have become an expert in that and have their contacts and information network to deal with that. What will a hawaldar know the difference between opensource ,GNU and proprietary........ Even if he installs linux the hawaldar is still going to catch hold of him(after all he doesn't know linux is opensource,...........) Recent bazee ceo case is an example of this......
Pankaj