Re: Linux for schools

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

naveed rearranged electrons thusly:

> dont u think the success of microsoft lies on the fact that it allowed the
> win 95 and versions later on to be pirated and as i have seen in india out
> of 20 pc's one is having a genuine version os MS.

So you are saying that Microsoft is deliberately allowing its stuff to be
pirated, so that it can dominate the PC market?  So why are they wasting
lakhs of rupees on Dewang Mehta (and chasing software pirates on their own
account)?

> so for linux to be a os of desktop we have to take some concrete steps like
> promoting it in indian schools dso that the future adults will be more
> comfortable with it from the begining.

Not a particularly new idea - it's been tried.  Several schools (for whom
"computer education" == DOS + Wordstar + BASIC + MS Office + Windows ...)
dont feel too comfortable with this, is the problem

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Suresh Ramasubramanian  <-->  mallet <at> efn <dot> org
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