In a way, I agree with Kenneth about the disadvantages of convincing fellow journos abt the benefits of open source. Most still confuse high price with quality. But then the open source community is quite insular and has never really tried to reach out to the larger public. I hope I am able to make a small difference.
Hopefully colleagues in the desk who work daily on Quark Express and Photoshop see the benefits of open source and convince cost-conscious managements to make a switch.
Shiv Kumar
From: Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org Reply-To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.glug-bom.org To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.glug-bom.org Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need techies to demonstrate Ubuntu Dapper at BombayPress Club Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 06:09:25 +0530
and although i hate to rain on the parade, it is going to be a hell of a job convincing journalists that gimp, inkscape, scribus are the 'equivalent' of
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On 05/07/06 15:19 +0530, Sanket Medhi wrote:
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Other than Hotmail forgetting to include the references header, the subject has stayed the same.
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