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Microsoft Targeting Indian Developers
Pranjal writes "An Indian Business magazine, Business World is reporting that in it's war against Linux, Microsoft is taking the battle to the Indian developers. The logic is simple. India has 10% of the developer population of the world. If a significant number of these developers commit to work on MS platforms then the number of developers working on Linux platforms can decrease significantly and thus the number of applications. As Dilip Mistry, a director at Microsoft India's Bangalore office puts it, "This country can affect our (Microsoft's) destiny." [Quote From article] Local linux user groups are trying to counter this threat by targetting school and university students and increasing the awareness about development on a linux platform. Read the full story here. [Nice cover don't you think?]"
...but which one's the penguin??
Ali
Ph33r m3!!!
I first read it as Endian. I thought they were going after former 68000 developers.
Stealing our fucking jobs and women.
Just because you are unable to get either of them isn't the fault of the indians. It's because you're a loser.
It's fascinating to see these kinds of trans-ethnic business practices becoming a reality. To think that only a few hundred years ago, we were all in our separate continents, living in dull homogeneity. Now we've been thrust together, shaken up, and hung out to dry by the Information Age, and we have to adapt to a whole new set of rules.
I'll come clean. I'm white. While I wouldn't want to lose my job to an Indian, I don't think that white folks have any more of a right to their jobs than Indians, or anyone else. If anything, the Indians are slightly more deserving, after we have gone back on so many treaties with them. I imagine I'd stoop to using Microsoft instead of Linux, if it meant I could stop working as a blackjack dealer. So please, try and offer a little understanding before ranting about how you lost your job to someone who happens to have darker skin. We're all people, too.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
How can he fight biological viruses when he can't even keep viruses out of his software?
Judging by that cover, I disagree. An angry 6' tall penguin should be able to gut Bill in seconds, not to mention swim at speeds in excess of 80 MPH.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
What if tux sported a bindi?
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
After all, he does have a computer science degree....
-ted
Who ever said microsoft wasn't scalable?
(ducks) :)
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I just can't believe that Microsoft would target Indians.
Really, when have you ever seen a teepee with Windows??
Researchers have yet to prove that the AIDS virus is not spread through Microsoft Outlook.
India is using and developing MS products.
Bill realizes that unless drastic steps are taken, enough Indian programmers may not live long enough to create the next version of clippy.
wouldn't it have made more sense to donate to the #1 country (Africa) dealing with an AIDS epidemic than #2 (India)?
Silly American, don't you even know that Africa is a continent, not a country? What makes you think you are qualified to comment on anything outside of Iowa?
Fortunately, Gates does.