**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
Nikhil Joshi writes:
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Nikhil Karkera wrote:But You still have to pay M$ for the OS and the Office Suite.
Are there any statistics over how much money drains out of India on proprietary s/w every year?Also it is a misconception that money *drains* out of India The software providers are Indian Cos.
Now that you have windows, may add some other properietary
app like Tally and so on goes the vicious circle.
If we change the OS itself we stop ourselves and others
from falling into this vicious circle at the first hurdle
itself.
Also free-funda can be implemented under Windows too.Yeah this could be a transitional strategy. Get people
I mean there are many open-source/free tools for Windows (Open Office for
e.g.) too
hooked to opensource. Then pull the rug from under
windows. Remove windows put linux. With the interface
greatly improved, many won't even mind it.
At the end of the day we have to think of massive overhaul of the entire
system if we want to port the apps to Linux
Is it practical ?
Here the above strategy would help.
regards Nikhil
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