>when it comes close on the heels of a central government of india >announcement a few weeks back that all government departments >ought to be using open-source software.
That is interesting. Now that Billie has gotten so generous, would the GoI reverse the order :-)? Should it? I too think it is good that Microsoft is pumping back some of its loot to the country of origin of those who helped him make it. However the question remains as to what will come of what Gates is planning to plough back to India? For example, what good does it do for teachers to be trained to use computers in the class-room, where the class-rooms don't exist? Or to computerize govt. operations, where the mindset of the bureaucracy remains the same? cm At 2:00 AM +0800 11/14/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ From: D Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > [ Date: Nov 13, 2002 09:26 (-0800) ] > > > it is an investment to get Indians to use Windows in > > stead of Linux. It is an investment for the distant > >you are absolutely spot on with this one. billy boy is almost >peeing in his pants at the prospect of a few hundred million kids >waiting to use linux. i am sure that this trip of his was >hurriedly put together as a damage control measure rather than >the philanthropic outburst it is made out to be, specially so, >when it comes close on the heels of a central government of india >announcement a few weeks back that all government departments >ought to be using open-source software. > >/amlan.
