On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Vivek Rajagopalan < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > Think of playing Games in Linux. I bet thats the first thing most school > > children would do. So I think we are just pushing the expenditure away > from > > govt and towards the children making the money to flow away from single > Co > > to local service centers and such. > What I meant here is: Nobody (children) would dream of playing games in a Linux system and would surely try to get their systems Game Compatible (Windows). Anyways, even if the govt adopts Linux, Will the children who use it? > What are the rules here ? Can the kids just sell the laptop and buy a > gaming system ?? > > > IMO most of the given systems (not all, but most) would be either sold away or be ** transformed ** into complete entertainment machines with partial educational benefit. So IMHO if LUG makes govt accept Linux only systems, it can be said a technical win for FOSS, but there would be no real benefits in real world. The migration to Windows would happen at any point. One idea is to hardware lock (say via a custom BIOS ??) the system into > a single supported distro of Linux. They would have to carry the unit to > a service centre to unlock it and install anything else - at which point > they have to provide their student ID. Such checks are needed to > maximize benefits of tax payer money. > If such a thing happens, you will end up making a political mistake of giving "Useless" systems to school children and cheating people. The opposition would argue that why can't government give "good" systems by spending just extra 1K for a 20-30K product and instead "cheat" people in giving "substandard and useless" system. Believe me that is sure to be said. (Ha ha) -- Regards P.Arunmozhi Twitter: @tecoholic Website: http://arunmozhi.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
