[Ilugc] Free Laptop without Free OS

2011-09-03 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
Respected Editor,

With respect to
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article2419753.ece

I seriously don't like the decision of our TamilNadu Goverment to skip Linux
Based operating system in favor of Windows.  The reason being that if
students begin to learn just windows during their academics they would think
that the world is just made up of windows and end up paying a whole deal of
money to MNC abroad for setting up a company of their own because they need
to purchase licensed copy of Windows OS.

We have our own free Operating System developed in India by CDAC (Center for
Development of Advance Computing) called as BOSS (Bharath Operating System
Solutions) http://bosslinux.in why don't we have this installed on our
freely distributed laptops ?

*Before Independence we were scrapped of our resources by some foreign
nation,  Now we are allowing our self and the future generation to be
scrapped of their resources by giving them just windows instead of the path
to freedom, SHAME ON US [?]*

Regards,
Bala
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Re: [Ilugc] Free Laptop without Free OS

2011-09-03 Thread K.P. Senthil Kumar
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan 
bala150...@gmail.com wrote:

 Respected Editor,

 With respect to

 http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article2419753.ece

 I seriously don't like the decision of our TamilNadu Goverment to skip
 Linux
 Based operating system in favor of Windows.  The reason being that if
 students begin to learn just windows during their academics they would
 think
 that the world is just made up of windows and end up paying a whole deal of
 money to MNC abroad for setting up a company of their own because they need
 to purchase licensed copy of Windows OS.

 We have our own free Operating System developed in India by CDAC (Center
 for
 Development of Advance Computing) called as BOSS (Bharath Operating System
 Solutions) http://bosslinux.in why don't we have this installed on our
 freely distributed laptops ?

 *Before Independence we were scrapped of our resources by some foreign
 nation,  Now we are allowing our self and the future generation to be
 scrapped of their resources by giving them just windows instead of the path
 to freedom, SHAME ON US [?]*

 Regards,
 Bala


Good efforts Bala!  Many thanks for your effort.

Senthil
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