[Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

[Arun SAG]

aaah..good explanation !!! great!!!

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Sujith <m.sujith at gmail.com> wrote:

> varadarajan narayanan wrote:
> >  As an individual I was able to migrate to Linux slowly .Even then it
> took
> > me about an year to be completely independent of proprietary software .
> It
> > was my own initiative.It was not easy though I am very happy I was able
> to
> > do now.
> >
> > But when it come to work , I still need a windows machine  for some
> reason
> > or other. Webex was not supported properly till few months ago in Linux
> till
> > Cisco took over and did something about it. We are dependent on windows
> > environment for something or other. In India digital certificate and
> company
> > formation etc are still depending on windows and IE !  This is mainly
> > because of individuals resisting change since they do not want to learn
> > something new or lose control over others - nothing technical about it .
> >
>
> Fair enough. But it still seems a tad funny to include 'FOSS' as part of
> the
> organization's name and use a non-free OS internally. :)
>
> Sujith
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