--- Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
size of the population. With such a large population, herd mentality rules rather than rational thought.
I don't know what mentality would rule. But, yes, population has affected almost everything in India. The size of the country is 3 times smaller than USA but the size of the population more than 3 times that of USA.
For smaller democracies, FOSS has potential to leave a bigger impact.
RMS once said "India is seeing Free Software as an alternative because the can build infrastructure with compartively less costs." I guess, most of us are looking at this perspective.
-- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode
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