On Tuesday 23 May 2006 02:14, Nikhil Marathe wrote: > Unfortunately flexgo was mentioned in today's mumbai mirror, this may > have a lot of takers in rural areas, where linux could provide better > features
ROTFL...AFAIK flexgo requires an active internet connection. I dont think there is good rural internet connectivity in India which is affordable at the rural level. Besides, I dont know who is going to bear the maintenence costs ( of the PC and all ). Ahem...one more practical difficulty is that rural India has electricity for like 4-8 hours daily in which people will be more interested in their work rather than "waste" their time in using the computer... And even if they do use the computer during that time we really can't say of the quality of electricity (fluctuations, surges???) ;) I feel these people rather use GNU/Linux, which is not only *free*, but you get to _own_ it unlike M$ Windoze which you pay for but _you_ dont _own_ it :/ -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
