Hi tahir, The story on nytimes is excellent.

Two point stand out in the story. 1> All this talk of AIDS in india is blown up. Star news had a story in which the health minister. Mr Shatrughan Sinha disputed the figures quoted by bill gates saying that they were out of proportion. No one is buying the M$ FUD that M$ is trying to help India. Almost all believe that M$ is eeing the Indian market after losing out china to Linux.

2> The government itself is thinking of implementing it's e-governance initiative by using linux. However it's sad that Narayanmurthy is doing Ads 4 M$.

-----Original Message----- From: Tahir Hashmi code_martial@softhome.net To: linuxers linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:10:46 +0530 Subject: [ILUG-BOM] NY Times story on Gates' India trip <snip> ***************** Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-JUHU. ***************