--- Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > size of the population. With such a > large population, > herd mentality rules rather than rational thought.
I don't know what mentality would rule. But, yes, population has affected almost everything in India. The size of the country is 3 times smaller than USA but the size of the population more than 3 times that of USA. > For smaller > democracies, FOSS > has potential to leave a bigger impact. RMS once said "India is seeing Free Software as an alternative because the can build infrastructure with compartively less costs." I guess, most of us are looking at this perspective. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
