On 25-Mar-07, at 3:02 PM, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
didnt you read mrugesh's post in this same thread?
Sure I did. That is why I asked, because according to him the
information was a few years old.
for a person who hasnt visited a cybercafe, you sound pretty
knowledgeable about it. Did you do a study? or is the stuff below
part of your dreams
In any case, I think the learning curve of GIMP and Blender will never
be as steep as keeping a Windows machine virus free. Why? This is
because the latter is close to impossible.
just reinstall now and then and the problem is solved. Anyway, that
is not the customers headache. The owner has to do the virus bit. And
no visitor to a cyber cafe is going to be able to learn gimp and
blender.
Moreover customers do not
appreciate going to a cyber cafe just to plug in their floppy or
pendrive and have a virus remove all their precious data.
doesnt happen
Secondly a cyber cafe is a place people primarily for browsing the Web
using a Web browser.
how do you know this?
I am not sure how many cyber cafe's have the
necessary bandwidth to allow _all_ their users to _simultaneously_
engage in voice chat or video chat.
if you are not sure, why post on it?
Therefore a viable alternative is to earmark a few machines which are
only going to be used only for browsing (and some text based IM) to be
converted into GNU/Linux or *BSD or any other free operating system.
even if they have *one* doze machine they have to pay the full
licensing fee
Moreover it would be nice to have the cyber cafe association issue a
press release expressing their preference towards free software
wherever feasible. It would be an excellant oppurtunity to let the
comman man taste free software.
lol
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