I remember Jim Morrison saying "They've got the guns,
but we've got the numbers"
rajeev j sebastian
acid solutions
--- Shridhar Daithankar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 07 May 2001 15:09, Sudhir Gandotra wrote:
> > Wired article on Argentina:
> >
> > Argentina may become the first country in the
> world to require all
> > government offices to use open-source software,
> pending the outcome of a
> > bill recently introduced in the nation's congress.
>
> I guess Mexico, France and China were also in the
> same league.
>
> > Maybe, we need to launch a strong Linux advocacy
> effort in India !
> > Anyone interested in such an effort ? Let's start
> discussing the
> > implementation of such an effort.
>
> On LIG, of course. But we won't be able to convince
> the government. It takes
> money you know, to get something inside it. And
> that's what we don't have.
>
> Why care? There are enough people who will be forced
> to use linux for it's
> functionality. And as usual more than 80% of them
> will be retained in the
> linux community. Wait and watch.
>
> I remember Atul Chitnis saying, 'Being free, is not
> the seventh of the seven
> reasons why linux is getting popular' in one of it's
> PCQ articles.
>
> Government is a different and very dirty ball game.
> I would like to keep away
> from that monstrous entity...
>
> Shridhar
>
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