On 04/09/11 11:08, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
On Sunday 04 Sep 2011, H.S.Rai wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Krittika<[email protected]>
wrote:
“ELCOT wishes to clarify that Linux Operating System will be made
available to the vendors for preloading in laptops.
Looks OK as such. BTW, how members of this list rate BOSS?
It looks OK up to the extent of giving a sop to the FOSS community.
However:
1. The users will never boot Linux, so its presence is nothing but a
charade.
+1, keep in mind that its not the installation of GNU/Linux that makes a
difference, it is how you pitch this to the users, or more correctly,
how you unpitch or unmarket foss.
I can tell out of my 6 + years experience that dual boot machines are
like say no to linux campains because often people give up linux for
small small reasons and then continue to boot windows.
In such situations, linux just becomes a fassion for students and they
hardly feel like using it.
By dual booting, we don't give enough encouragement and insentives to
users in favour of FOSS.
It is like to commonly say "I will put Linux on the machine, but just an
option to try. for all the general use i will also install windows".
Or some what less common attitude, "you can use linux for some things,
but for many others you can't do without windows. So let's dual boot ".
2. Microsux will end up getting revenue from 24+ lakh (as per the Hindu
report) Winduhs installations, which is what they wanted. I'd suspect a
mutual back-scratching agreement between the powers-that-be and MS, but
we all know our bureaucrats and politicians are incorruptible, so that
scenario is unlikely.
3. With 2.4 million installations of BOSS, CDAC will be able to get
another umpteen crore of funding from GoI.
Everyone's happy except the FOSS community!
+1 again, but I think counters of FOSS have found out a nice diplomatic
way to put it away.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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