On 25-Mar-07, at 3:02 PM, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
didnt you read mrugesh's post in this same thread?
Sure I did. That is why I asked, because according to him the information was a few years old.
for a person who hasnt visited a cybercafe, you sound pretty knowledgeable about it. Did you do a study? or is the stuff below part of your dreams
In any case, I think the learning curve of GIMP and Blender will never be as steep as keeping a Windows machine virus free. Why? This is because the latter is close to impossible.
just reinstall now and then and the problem is solved. Anyway, that is not the customers headache. The owner has to do the virus bit. And no visitor to a cyber cafe is going to be able to learn gimp and blender.
Moreover customers do not appreciate going to a cyber cafe just to plug in their floppy or pendrive and have a virus remove all their precious data.
doesnt happen
Secondly a cyber cafe is a place people primarily for browsing the Web using a Web browser.
how do you know this?
I am not sure how many cyber cafe's have the necessary bandwidth to allow _all_ their users to _simultaneously_ engage in voice chat or video chat.
if you are not sure, why post on it?
Therefore a viable alternative is to earmark a few machines which are only going to be used only for browsing (and some text based IM) to be converted into GNU/Linux or *BSD or any other free operating system.
even if they have *one* doze machine they have to pay the full licensing fee
Moreover it would be nice to have the cyber cafe association issue a press release expressing their preference towards free software wherever feasible. It would be an excellant oppurtunity to let the comman man taste free software.
lol