On Friday 03 January 2003 21:34, Nikhil Karkera wrote:
- LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 Nikhil Joshi wrote :
Come on who are we kidding? Do these ppl really care (and why should they?) if theres Linux or GNU/Linux or whatever and what is the right (read purists) way of The shopowners and home users already use free (read pirated) software. While the step is very welcome it would be really good >> to see the lowest denominator using Linux apart from scientists,sarkari babus,geeks
Wrong presumption that initial capital costs is the only cost. As usage increases, the costs for maintainence and security of data exceeds the initial capital cost by orders of magnitude (now u know why M$ is trying to change it's bussiness model). This is true for any user. The hassle of keeping out worms and preventing random crashes is what will turn the shop owner and home user to GNU/Linux.
rgds jtdsouza@softhome.net