This evening I visited a stall at a popular trade fair in Faridabad
which was displaying RedHat / FC1 on a Laptop. I asked the salesperson
some questions being discussed here. A brief summary in QA form is
placed below.
Q: How many people who buy this laptop actually use Linux?
A: Hardly
Excellent suggestion. Hands up to Anand Shankar.
R M Bhargava
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:40:54 +0530, Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This evening I visited a stall at a popular trade fair in Faridabad
which was displaying RedHat / FC1 on a Laptop. I asked the salesperson
some questions
Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote:
So do you think the Indian Linux community can and should be doing
something about this?
Talk to me. I have a budget, and no ideas.
Given that your current sales might get affected if we force people to
use whichever OS is bundled with the computer, do you think the
satyakam goswami wrote:
they come with Turbolinux , cleansing is happening for there own ulterior motive
they think the
customer is a cow whom they can milk multiple times if they have windows installed
rather than
Linux.
I am not sure whether such an activity should be ignored by the Linux
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Now I know this is a controversial topic with many different angles, but I
felt this should be discussed to some length here.
On a recent visit to Nehru Place, I was at first pleasantly surprised to
see big stacks of LG MyPC branded boxes. I was told that they were selling
very
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
If the computer maker (LG in this case, but you have HP/Compaq too
now along with Esys) is interested in having the customer use Linux
Hey, we came first :-)
So do you think the Indian Linux community can and should be doing
something about this?
Talk to me. I have a
--- Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[x-posted]
Now I know this is a controversial topic with many different angles, but I
felt this should be discussed to some length here.
On a recent visit to Nehru Place, I was at first pleasantly surprised to
see big stacks of LG MyPC
Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote:
So do you think the Indian Linux community can and should be doing
something about this?
Talk to me. I have a budget, and no ideas.
Did you see what the kerala govt is doing?
Another thing that can be done is to have NASSCOM go after the Ritchie
Street / Lamington
satyakam goswami wrote:
they come with Turbolinux , cleansing is happening for there own
ulterior motive they think the
customer is a cow whom they can milk multiple times if they have
windows installed rather than
Linux.
well think twice they think with Linux the customer will not come
back to
