Mario, This is the second time in as many days that you bandied the name, Bill Gates, like a cheerleader at a Seahawks game.
What exactly has Bill Gates got to do with your assertion about India being a superpower - and that too, what superpower - economic, intellectually, military, political, all of the aforesaid?? Please clarify. Secondly Bill Gates is only hedging his bets on India and China, with their burgeoning middle classes, so that he can make even more money and remain the philantrophist with the most moolah!! This is opportunism at its best. He is only trying to head-off more and more people (in India &China) in the developing-world from embracing the OSI - http://www.opensource.org Here's a link related to Bill's play in India: http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=73034&cat_id=643 - Internet users worldwide over the age of 15-years has reached 694 million - numero uno position is Microsoft, attracted largest global audience with 538.6 million - the US stands first with 152 million internet users - China and Japan stand second and third with 74.7 million and 52.1 million - India ranks tenth with around 16.7 million users With the US market almost tapped out, no marks for guessing where the opportunities for growth lie. And last month Bill Gates coddled the Chinese Prez at his home only to have a Chinese hardware manufacture agree to buy $2.4 billion worth of Microsoft products all in the name of fighting piracy !! Bah !! And the US will soon be installing an Intellectual Property Rights Attache at its embassy in India. No, he will not be coming with Hershey bars. So we could soon be seeing Indians being whisked away by US law enforcement agencies for violating IPR. http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14200345 So, why is it that you are card-carrying member of the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation ?? Best - Bosco On Mon May 8 12:17:53 PDT 2006, Mario Goveia wrote --- cornel wrote: > > Mario > Unlike you, I prefer not to count the chickens > before they are hatched. > Mario observes: > That probably explains why Bill Gates "does", while you "teach". _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)