varadarajan narayanan wrote:
>  As an individual I was able to migrate to Linux slowly .Even then it took
> me about an year to be completely independent of proprietary software . It
> was my own initiative.It was not easy though I am very happy I was able to
> do now.
> 
> But when it come to work , I still need a windows machine  for some reason
> or other. Webex was not supported properly till few months ago in Linux till
> Cisco took over and did something about it. We are dependent on windows
> environment for something or other. In India digital certificate and company
> formation etc are still depending on windows and IE !  This is mainly
> because of individuals resisting change since they do not want to learn
> something new or lose control over others - nothing technical about it .
> 

Fair enough. But it still seems a tad funny to include 'FOSS' as part of the
organization's name and use a non-free OS internally. :)

Sujith
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http://sujith-m.blogspot.com
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