Mehul Ved wrote: > On Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 08:33:05PM +0530, Rony wrote: > >> A thought comes to my mind. What if someone says, "At least M$ and Co. >> are spending money on IT education and providing free computers and >> learning infrastructure to rural children. What about the other side?". >> Just a thought. What infrastructure can we provide? >> > > They're spending your own money. And it is a form of investment to them, > to hook new comers to their products so that they remain loyal to them > and purchase their softwares in the future, thus replishing the > investment many times over. > Free Open Source may not provide them with tangible infrastructure but it > helps them gain knowledge about not just the product but the whole > concept just avoiding midless lock in to just one vendor/a group of > vendors. > Like has been mentioned many times before if we bring in financial > arguments they bring in statistics and freebies to tip the scale in > their favour. > I know their strategy and intentions behind it but what I want to know is when an M$ guy distributes free PCs to classrooms and if we want them to refuse it, what alternative do we have to offer to those PC-less classrooms?
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