On Friday 03 January 2003 09:34 pm, Nikhil Karkera wrote:
- LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 Nikhil Joshi wrote :
Come on who are we kidding? Do these ppl really care (and why should they?) if theres Linux
As long as pirated s/w is around, maybe it isn't practical to expect home users, and other laymen to shift to free s/w (atleast not very easily), even if it's a better alternative. But you can't extend the same rules to government establishments.
Are there any statistics over how much money drains out of India on proprietary s/w every year?
But also how much money comes into India, many of the projects of big software companies do develop software in india. Adobe, microsoft, and many more develop software in india. They provide opprtunities to many developers in India. Today india is probably the only country in the world who is making profit in the software industry. There is a down time still in the US and the developed countries where as india is making huge profits by providing cheaper development center for many of these big companies. I actually have never understood this acpect of OSS/FS. How can it help in increasing employment? Flames > /dev/null, but do enligten me. Thanks.
Warm Regards, Nikhil Karkera.