Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?

Do they (edu institutions / Affiliated Colleges) need to? Don't they get software cheaper (a little less cost). Rather, don't universities atleast get it cheaper than corporates?

A lot of piracy happens at the corporate level under the name of volume licensing. As an example, if the company has paid for 7 licenses of , say, Windows 2003, they use the same keys to install on atleast 10-12 computers saying that they "erased the previous install". These guys simply give out a fresh key.

That apart, there seems to be no other licensed software other than those provided by MS. The editors (EditPad, UltraEdit), WinZip, Trialware like Toad all come with cracks, serials and patches on their software repository servers.

Regards,