On Friday 30 December 2005 08:39, JTD wrote: > > That is cause he's Narayan Murthy - well known even then - for stupid > startups like us it was more like 6yrs. And power took a whole 2 yrs > in a D zone backward area, MPCB -3 yrs, SSI registration 1 yr. Many > of these were chicken and egg. And the subsidies promised by the govt > never ever comes unless u are ready with a special lubricant made by > RBI. > In 1991 (afair) the DOT had rejected my application for manufacture > of "Integra" since multifunction fax machines were not in their list > of equipment permitted for manufacture. So u go to DOT ND and demo > your product to a few sleepy officials, who will then ask you for > connections before issuing a letter allowing your equipment to be > tested for line compatiblity (u can damage their non functioning > network u see). Then off to DGTD and DI then customs and .... all for > obtaining manufacture, import and concessional rates of customs > licences. If you managed to run this gauntlet and actually make > something useful u would have to spend the profits on administering > various ledgers to prove that crooked you did not sell the components > in the market for a fat profit. In reality there were specialised > fake manufacturers doing a good job of importing and selling the > components and raw materials to small manufacturers who made stuff > for the big manufacturers who did not pay, A vast network of > corruption which produced what the market consumed - exorbitantly > priced, shoddy beyond imagination, technological stoneage products. > What a laugh. The "black" money generated between 1950 and 1990 would > have been enough for us to overtake the USA two times over. > Mind u one required to be a genius, incredibly machivalean and very > very lucky just to stay afloat in business - u never knew what raid u > would be the target of. Technology, quality, performance were minor > footnotes not even worth glancing at in the scheme of things. > > So for people who think that freedom is not important think a 100 > times and be very happy u were not a player in those great days. >
amen to that. And this country is gone to the dogs... :) -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
