I'm sure many of you will love the line, "But Microsoft is popular even in the villages." :-)
A similar thing happened in Mexico, I believe, with Bill Gates meeting directly with Pres. Fox after Mexico's academic community recommended that the country use Linux. Linux seems to have a better chance with the Chinese government. Interesting, they view it as a security issue--they don't view Windows as insecure, but consider dependency on it to be insecure. Norm http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Ind ia%20Microsoft%20Support Monday, December 20, 2004 � Last updated 6:11 p.m. PT Indian tech city turns to Microsoft By S.SRINIVASAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BANGALORE, India -- Microsoft Corp. won a battle against open source software supporters in India's technology hub of Bangalore, with local authorities choosing its software for networking the state's utilities and services. An e-governance project for the 55 million people of Karnataka state, of which Bangalore is the capital, will begin April 2005 and will be powered by Microsoft's proprietary software, an official said Monday. ... Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on a visit to India in November 2002, wooed the federal and state governments in India, offering to sell his company's software at prices much lower than market rates. ... Microsoft's critics have opposed the plan, saying it was only a trick to tie large populations to proprietary software. "By using proprietary systems, you are locked into a technology over which you have no control," said Frederick Noronha, an activist who supports greater freedom for software users. "But Microsoft is quite popular even in villages. Let open source become so popular, then we will have no problem using it," Chawla countered. ... _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
