On Monday 11 December 2006 15:21, Aparna Appaiah wrote:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 10:36:41PM
+0530, ???????????????????????????|Praveen wrote:
Hi,
Is it a cultural issue? Do we need someone to tell us what to do? What are other reasons for not many Indians in the global FOSS scenery?
Piracy plays a major role here in India. People prefer hiring and copying pirated CDs of movies, songs etc.
dont confuse software and content. The two are completely different. And much as the music industry would love to label consumers as crooks, they are in fact forcing consumers to become so. A few months ago my wife purchased a cd of "original" beatles. There were a few originals (i have cassetes of some of these) and the rest were remixes. Most cd compilations of music will be 80% full of crap. In effect u are paying through your nose to subsidise the music industry's inability to come up with viable business models. Then there is the case of public performance, radio broadcasts. etc etc.
The same thing holds for Windoze as well. I believe awareness about FOSS will increase the moment people are made to pay for their copies of proprietary software.
Wish granted. Install vista.