From: kghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Action is better than worrying.
Right you are - my feelings are similar to throwing chairs .
But seriously the principal reasons why we geekos stick to linux/BSD
etc are not that an
attractive proposition to day to day users .
95% people would not know what to do with source-code even when it's
free .
95% people would not want to download 2 CD's when u can ask almost
anybody for
1 free copy , many ask their IT deptt for a copy of winXP /office .
95% people would want to get and use what 95% of people are doing .
95% people would like to follow when they see " IBM recommends you use
..... "
95% people would want something which is faster , even if it's just
appears to be so ,
and really isn't .
95% people would not like to learn anything to use a computer which is
more complex
than watchin TV .
On top of that if government tacitly encourages and practices
software piracy in it's
own organisations .... the future for linux for our country is dark .
Everybody shall adopt linux for server applications where they
can't do without unix
and does want it free ---- hence Linux . Hey nobody here even buys
Enterprise versions
of Linux because it has a price . Everywhere else they shall deploy
pirated Windoze again
because it is free . Then get a free Anti-Virus like AVG and a free
anti-spyware .......
and so on . It is very painful for me to think that Linux shall in
this scheme of things be
relegated to an invisible server role .
- pinaki .
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