On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 10:27:51 +0530, Anand Shankar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 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.
As an outsider, I find this curious that this is so very
different from the genesis of free software; where free software
started, grew, and flourished in the developer/IT/CS community before
it was grudgingly acknowledged by major companies.
Interestingly, the focus in this forum seems to be mostly on
business acceptance, not on community/educational institution
deployment; which is different from the places where free software was
born.
manoj
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