>make some reason and ban Microsoft in kerala >.prosecute all those use windows >put them in jail >for a week .. dat may be da only way :-) ....
These kind of thoughts doesn't work out. I think if the free software movement can make 50% of computer users in Kerala (or in the world) switch to free software then the non-free software companies will do a compromise. The compromise is they will release their software as "Open Source" atleast. Thus they will be in a competition with free software. Eventually, they can be free software also by complying with any freesoftware license, which respects the 4 freedoms. Thus we GNU+Linux users are also free to use Windows, Mac etc. But as long as they are not in the competition, they are out of the running. As you all know the same switch is happened to KDE. Initially it was a non-free software. When its developers found that there is GNome, they started thinking that no one is going to use KDE. So they started compromising and now KDE is free software. So I would suggest all proprietary software manufacturers to COMPETE with free software. COMPETE - that's the only way they can sustain. - Jos Collin On 16/05/2009, madhu kannan <[email protected]> wrote: > make some reason and ban Microsoft in kerala . prosecute all those use > windows put them in jail for a week .. dat may be da only way :-) .... > -- Collecting Data is the first step towards wisdom. But Sharing Data is the first step towards community. _______________________________________________ Mailinglist mailing list [email protected] http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org
