On Thursday 24 December 2009 12:24:58 narendra sisodiya wrote:
> @JTD > I agree with you also, but we cannot ask them to compare > based on price and license. M$ has already lowered cost of "their > failed products". Imagine a condition where M$ release his Windows > and associated software as "freeware". (a free of cost , closed > source , close license copy) to every student of India. What if and when M$ serves freebees?. They already are by not looking at piracy. However the OS is a miniscule part. All the other "suites" are the real cost. > we should prepare a defend side (points) where we can put reason > that "these freewares are bad for you". You are playing in a very badly skewed field. And will just waste your energy. Nonetheless with FLOSS there are ample points of superiority in every case. The problem is that unless the protagonists are very technical, or understand very well social implications of non-free, you will be banging your head on a wall. In any case look at the ilug-bom wiki. There are a couple of pages of interest. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
