Besides just the free software, awareness campaigns should be loud and pervasive. I just got a new laptop with Ubuntu 7.10. ISPs like Tata Indicom & Reliance still do not support Linux openly. Their sales guys do not even know what Linux is. I know my problem of connecting can be fixed by my LUG friends but success will be when support is widely available from these vendors. Similarly websites that only open with IE !
On Dec 18, 2007 4:13 PM, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 1:08 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > > Well the same office suite does have a Windows build does it not ? So, > > are HDFC, ICICI the "next" level ? How does the notion of online > > presence provided by Mugshot/OLPC fit in ? > > > > You would still need to buy a Windows license to run that build of > OpenOffice.... > when you can run it for free on a Linux distro.... :) > > Also think of a smaller scenario like a mom-and-pop cyber cafe with 10 > computers, > if they had to buy licenses for everything from the OS to the Office > suite its gonna hurt > their margins. When they can run a free distro on lower specced > hardware without having to > scale up hardware everytime a new release of windows pops up.... > > -- Valsa
