On 10/6/06, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now, coming to this particular issue of laptops I wholeheartedly agree with Siju. In fact this is >nothing different from that idiot Bill Gates who came to India saying that he wanted to help India tackle the AIDS disease.
Little do I know about Bill Gates and the Aids Issue. But I know this was the outcome of Indian President's meet with Bill some time back. ============================================================================ In a speech during dedication ceremonies Wednesday for the country's new International Institute of Information Technology in the university city of Pune, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam recounted a conversation earlier this year with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. "We were discussing the future challenges in information technology, including the issues related to software security," Kalam said, according to a transcript of the speech. "I made a point that we look for open-source codes so that we can easily introduce the users built security algorithms. Our discussions became difficult, since our views were different." =========================================================================== http://news.com.com/India+leader+advocates+open+source/2100-1016_3-1011255.html?tag=nl http://news.com.com/Indian+president+calls+for+open+source+in+defense/2100-7344_3-5259836.html Indian Govt, Defence, Universities and a lot of other companies are shifting towards Open Source Software and Operating Systems or something based on it. I know some details but do not want to disclose it here. I know about teams setup to investigate about replacing Proprietary Software with Open Source. The investigations are over in many places and the migration has started in massive amounts. All this points to the fact that the future Indian market is slowly closing for all hardware that does not support Open Source well. And this includes Intel, Adaptec ( Please some one fill in the list .... there are a few!). Already AMD is eating up Intel's market here! And soon people here are going to find out the truth about all the *fraud* Open Source support talk some hardware companies claim either through all these public discussions on the internet, or through people like girish and myself ( I am already asking people not to hurt themselves buying Intel's hardware ) or the hard way i.e buying the hardware and finding it does not work, then approaching the vendor and finding they don't care even if there are people who want to provide free and quality support for their products to others. And it does not take much or cost them a dime to change their fate. They will have to Open up their documentation if they need to survive. The faster they learn the better for them. Thankyou so much Kind Regards Siju
