A thought comes to my mind. What if someone says, "At least M$ and Co. are spending money on IT education and providing free computers and learning infrastructure to rural children. What about the other side?". Just a thought. What infrastructure can we provide?
Microsoft or any proprietory company never provides any thing for free. it is some thing like give the first dose of heroin or smak for free or perhaps a couple more so that the entire generation can be diseased. microsoft is not sitting there for charity. agreed that no one sits for charity alone that can't sustain once life. but microsoft is not doing fair gaime either. all that they are doing is to create a sort of "east india company " of today. for the other side, it is not our responsibility to "provide " infrastructure persay. what we give is much more valuable and that is the freedom and the way to it. we give free knowledge and all of us although earning money as a must for life at least don't want to do dirty sanskar (teachings_ on young kids to sell their own selves to some one person or organisation. the problem is that is the government's educational system ready to take our knowledge and provide the proper infrastructure? we must any ways not rely on others out side to provide infrastructure. happy hacking. Krishnakant.
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