Re: [Fsf-india] Freedom, affordable costs... beer, freespeech

2002-04-11 Thread Khuzaima A. Lakdawala
Seems that the financial power of the Proprietary Software industry to undercut Free Software in a long battle, when it (the PS industry) is sufficiently threatened, has not been appreciated. The *single* largest proprietary software company's market capitalization is larger than many

[Fsf-india] Freedom, affordable costs... beer, freespeech

2002-04-10 Thread Frederick Noronha
My apologies for raking up a flame-war regarding my earlier. The feedback I got on the Linux-in-the-Third-World article was most interesting, and it was something one went through carefully. Just to put a few of my own views forward: * From some of the discussion, it appears that software