[Ilugc] foss hardware workshop at Ooty

[Arun Khan]

On Saturday 30 Aug 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

> This is how businesses grow - avoid monoculture, diversify. Offer
> more products. This is the logic behind supermarkets too. Offer
> variety and you will grow. I do not think that any cybercafe will rip
> out all the windows machines and replace them with linux. They will
> probably try out linux on a few and see what happens. I remember back
> in 2005 I went to a cybercafe in Adyar who had 4 machines - two of
> them linux. His server was also linux.

I have had a similar experience at a cybercafe in Howrah, WB (circa 
2005).  The place was 100% RH9 desktop.  I was quite surprised and 
watched the other surfers in the cafe using the desktops.  None of them 
seemed to have a problem navigating the desktop or the apps :)

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Arun Khan