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 -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
