On Tuesday 17 January 2006 8:13 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
JTD wrote:
Excuse me JTD and Abhi, but we are going in the same direction of thought as did Mr. Chandrababu Naidu who promoted the IT revolution. What happened? The poor were still poor and are still poor and commiting suicides in AP.
Precisely the reason for affordable computing. People would not have planted exorbitantly priced gm crops that resist one pest and sucumb to 500 others. Lots of other complex issues too, but widespread, affordable information and computing would mitigate such problems.
Another point, those who use linux are not the poor people who are entering computer literacy. That section of people still use M$, thanks to rampant piracy and cheap hardware thats more M$ friendly. A poor or lower middle class assembler in India or Asia may not have any knowledge of Linux, but he still learns from his friends how to create FAT32 partitions and run 'setup.exe'. Thats what really clicks with people. With M$ compounding the problem by donating computers to schools and colleges, this Linux vision still looks distant. I am sorry if I sound negative.
True. And u wind up with bigger debts, lesser knowledge and a deeeeper hole. It's a vicious circle exactly like the one the farmers are in but with the glitz of computers. Any idea how much does a Cisco CCNP cert costs. U can learn much more about routing and filtering with a Rs.4000/- 2nd hand 386 box and earn even more chucking the cisco router.