Hey Nikhil,
I beg to differ from your views. I am from a commerce background and have immense interest in the Open Source Movement. In fact, I have already motivated lot of friends to consider Linux and they are already learning. I do agree that the syllabus of most of the computer science / engineering courses does not give a broad IT perspective. But then it also depends on the individual how he grooms his knowledge.
I have been using Redhat since version 4.0 and recently switched over to Mandrake 8.2. I have already fiddled around quite a bit with Mandrake, Debian, Redhat, Suse, FreeBSD.
I think it is all about the attitude. So what do you think now?
Cheers, Shishir
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikhil Joshi" nikhiljoshi@subdimension.com To: "Linuxers" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:01 AM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Interesting Conversation
Hi! I had a conversation with my B.E. comp friend about Linux. Basically he is doing a project in VC++
fr:So you are doing project in Linux right ? me:yeah. C programming in Linux fr:Oh,does Linux have VB,VC ? me:No fr:hmm... so will my VC programs run on Linux? me:No fr:Then what's the use of Linux?
I was stupified. (OK Windows programs can b emulated but still they cannot 'run' right ?)
This is from a guy who had Operating Systems,System Programming,Microprocessor in his syllabus
I guess the whole syllabus is 'DOS' oriented. ppl still cannot digest the fact that there are many other compilers other than the 'standard' Turbo C++ 3.0
Also I've observed that this is the general awareness/attitude of Comp. ppl abt Linux.
I can only imagine what it must be like for Arts/Commerce/ ppl to understand what is Linux
-- Nikhil