Hello, On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > I'd written a mail on this earlier in a thread where NASSCOM rejecting > FOSS standards was discussed. I see the reasons as being less > sociological than pragmatic. My views are as under:
The reasons you have given are reasonable for: (a) Organisations/people who were newbies in the 90's (b) Business organisations/people (who _must_ follow the market). This still does not explain why the organisations that had competence in Unix allowed this competence to lapse (for example, by "forgetting" to pass it on to the younger generation). Moreover, it looks like academic organisations are following business trends rather than leading businesses to future trends. > It is still not too late. One always hopes that it is never too late! :-) Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
