On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 10:36:41PM +0530, ???????????????????????????|Praveen wrote: > Hi, > > Is it a cultural issue? Do we need someone to tell us what to do? What > are > other reasons for not many Indians in the global FOSS scenery?
Piracy plays a major role here in India. People prefer hiring and copying pirated CDs of movies, songs etc. The same thing holds for Windoze as well. I believe awareness about FOSS will increase the moment people are made to pay for their copies of proprietary software. Regards, Aparna. -- Aparna Appaiah -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
