On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:41:32PM -0800, Norm Matloff wrote: <snip> [quoting an article...] > 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.
Which pisses off everyone ELSE, because it makes them feel stupid for paying 'full price.' :^) <snip> > "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. It's that old line about crack dealers, all over again. ;^) > "But Microsoft is quite popular even in villages. Let open source become so > popular, then we will have no problem using it," Chawla countered. *boggle* -bill! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
