Switch to Linux!
GNU/Linux, or simply Linux, is an alternative to Microsoft Windows. It is easy to use and gives more freedom to users. Anyone can install it: Linux is free as in freedom, and often available free of charge.
Can point to newbies to GNU/Linux.
Cheers Praveen
Praveen A wrote:
Switch to Linux!
GNU/Linux, or simply Linux, is an alternative to Microsoft Windows. It is easy to use and gives more freedom to users. Anyone can install it: Linux is free as in freedom, and often available free of charge.
I was talking to a client about freedom and gave an example of a diary. We buy a blank diary from a stationery shop, write on its pages and fill it up with personal data. Does the shop guy then want to read the diary and even if he wants to, do we let him? In the same way, when we buy a digital diary, we don't want the manufacturer to access its contents as we keep adding personal information. Similarly a computer is a multi-function tool that we use for our daily work and a lot of personal information goes into it. The software manufacturer who makes the software for the hardware we own, has no business to snoop into our system and access any information from it. Closed softwares cannot be audited and therefore they can compromise our privacy and security. Added to that is the nuisance of closed software constantly logging into the manufacturer's website to supposedly look for updates. We cannot control what information the manufacturer is sending from our system to its website. Libre softwares can be audited and modified to make them secure and private and that is the only logical choice for any computer user. Libre software minds its own business and lets you mind your own.
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We cannot control what information the manufacturer is sending from our system to its website. Libre softwares can be audited and modified to make them secure and private and that is the only logical choice for any computer user. Libre software minds its own business and lets you mind your own.
That was a pretty good example!
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On 27-Jul-07, at 10:46 PM, Roshan wrote:
own business and lets you mind your own.
That was a pretty good example!
here is a nice one:
The hottest selling item in petty shops in chennai is water. One water packet costs 1 rupee. I have noticed even the poorest of the poor spend that one rupee on a water packet. Because he knows that it is cheaper in the long run to spend 1 rupee on a water packet than to spend many rupees on antibiotics and doctors. There is an alternative to safe water - innoculate yourself against every known water borne disease and make sure you take booster doses (every day if possible). Also keep a check on the new diseases and viruses appearing and innoculate against them also.
Free water is not safe water - but paying for safe water saves huge amounts of money. Migrating to free software is expensive, but you dont need to spend on medical treatment every day for the rest of your life.
On 7/29/07, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
Free water is not safe water - but paying for safe water saves huge amounts of money. Migrating to free software is expensive, but you dont need to spend on medical treatment every day for the rest of your life.
safe water saves huge amounts of money?
On 30-Jul-07, at 1:04 AM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Free water is not safe water - but paying for safe water saves huge amounts of money. Migrating to free software is expensive, but you dont need to spend on medical treatment every day for the rest of your life.
safe water saves huge amounts of money?
yes - and lives too
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