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Laptop scheme draws flak
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| Proponents of Linux, an open source operating system too have expressed
| reservations over the motives of the government in bundling Microsoft Windows
| and Office software with the laptops. Linux has grown in popularity over the
| last few years and the number of Linux users is growing at a rapid pace in
| Goa too. Users of this open source operating system have also formed Linux
| users’ groups in Goa that meet regularly to share their knowledge and
| experience with others.
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| Said Omkar Ainapur, a lecturer who swears by Linux, “It is disheartening to
| note that the Goa government is promoting Microsoft Windows when the latest
| trend is to switch over to an open source software.”
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| “The open source software, besides being free to use and share, is fully
| downloadable. The latest version of the software Open Office Org 2.4 is fully
| compatible with Miscrosoft’s MS Office and comes packed with all the features
| of MS Office,” Ainapur informed.
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| While the open source software comes free, the professional version of MS
| Office costs Rs 17,000 and the student/teacher version is pegged at Rs 6,000.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Goa/Laptop_scheme_draws_flak/articleshow/3147056.cms
Related:
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
Microsoft seals its Windows and opens the door to Linux
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| Now comes the really interesting question. With Vista's activation
| technology, Microsoft has the power to stamp out piracy everywhere. But
| will it choose to do so everywhere? After all, if folks in China or
| Thailand or Ethiopia have to pay for Vista, they won't be able to run
| it because they won't be able to afford the licence fee. In which case
| they may finally wake up to the attractions of free software such as
| Linux - and it's easy to imagine what that will do to Microsoft's
| plans for world domination.
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| It's a delicious prospect: Microsoft impaling itself on the horns
| of a dilemma it has created for itself. Roll on Thursday.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1956941,00.html
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