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.

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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."

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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

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