Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
Yes, on a personal front there's nothing wrong. But on a wider front, that is adoption of Linux in corporations this can prove an effective FUD. Indian managers and sadly, major number of techies do not care to keep themselves informed and get scared by such FUD. This leads to "Linux is illegal you know, so there's another reason not to use it".
This is the same technique used many years ago before computers came into existence. During those days there were mechanical cash registers and a big name in the industry would use such methods to beat their rivals. Their salesman would hide outside the rival company salesman's house and would follow his horse carriage. After the rival's guy left the potential customer's office, the salesman would visit that client and tell them that they were having a legal dispute with the rival company and anyone who dealt with them ( rivals ) would get into legal problems too. So the client would simply want to wash his hands off the rival company's product. They even built sub-standard machines with the rival's label and after a breakdown, visit the client to advise him to buy products from his own company only. Later on the same big company got beaten by another that went on to become one of the biggest names in the industry. No names please.
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