Hi, On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 23:24 +0530, Jaybrata Bhattacharyya wrote: <snipped> > in fact i have found in the last five months that > there has been a drastic reduction in the interest among desktop users > in linux.
Very interesting! Please do share in details how you observed this and please quantify if possible, identifying the segment(s) which showed this trend. I anticipate interesting pointers here. > pirated software suppliers are not literate enough about linux I am totally against software piracy, but we can't ignore the huge, informal distribution n/w created by these people. The following numbers tell their own story: 1. About 1,20,000 - 1,50,000 copies of Office Suite Licenses (MS-Office, StarOffice etc) get sold in India currently each year. 2. As per IDC Research, for FY2004-05, the total no. of PCs shipped stood at 3.6 million units. Now, its common knowledge that almost 99% of these PCs will have some sort of Office Suite loaded. Even at 1,50,000 licence sold, that number is still a mere 4% of the 3.6 million units. So, by tapping into this distribution network in a legit fashion can probably help transform the scenario. Just my 2p. ;-) -indra > jaybrata -- Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Phone : (0)-98300-20971 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW : http://www.l2c2.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- L2C2 : Innovations for India -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
