--- Anand Shankar wrote: > I believe FOSS gained significant acceptance > worldwide due to > patronage and a strategic corporate policy of such > majors as IBM, > Google, Yahoo, HP, Intel etc. For things to happen > in India, we need > more than one such major Corporate and/or Academic > body adopting FOSS, > and in a way encouraging / cajoling others to ponder > for adoption.
I'm not sure if my example suits well in here, but I would like to ask this. Did BITS-Pilani get its reputation because of being able to have tie-up with few of top 5 IT majors or did BITS-Pilani have (or has) the quality of a unique academic institution? > FOSS in India needs very much an example of "Big > Name" Corporate > Acceptance. It is the adoption at Desktop which is > being talked here. > Many Corporates already deploy FOSS in their > Server-end applications, > where most users, "whose opinions matter", are not > aware of the > advantages brought by FOSS in their own company. Are there policies restricting the disclosure of such information? > Adoption is easier in academic institutions, as > training / > self-education is very much part of the environment. > FOSS/Linux being > adopted in IITs/NITs etc does'nt make much news, as > it gels with the > myth "Techie OS" for Techie people. It would make > more impact if it > were to be adopted by IIMs or any other leading > Management Schools. Agreed. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php ubunturos @ freenode __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
