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Linux Gaining Ground In India
GillBates0 writes "Yahoo/Reuters is reporting that Linux seems to be gaining over Microsoft in India. According to Red Hat, about 10 percent of India's personal computers will be sold with Linux rather than Microsoft operating systems by March, 2004, up from nothing in January. Linux already drives India's National Stock Exchange, and the Government of India has been promoting open source lately."
oh please don't use the term "gaining ground". India already has border skirmishes with packistan; losing territory to a penguin is not something they'll appreciate!
let them spend the next 20 years trying to configure their linux config files.
the rest of us can then get our jobs back.
You can have a unique distro for each of their animal headed, multi-armed gods.
...about 10 percent of India's personal computers will be sold with Linux...
That's a lotta' cash for SCO....
Just like when Netware was king NT came along and "gained" market share. It was cheaper with flexible licensing and MS did not care if you put it on a server and did not pay. The next step along the way would be (and more appealing to a country like India) something free and readily available.
Well, at least all the new linux users in india will have a local number to call for support. The WIPRO guys won't have to speak english either, its a win/win situation.
No wonder India likes Linux.... With commands like fsck and chmod, which don't make any sense in english, maybe they make sense in Hindu.
I have it on authority that Apu uses a Linux-based register at the Kwik-E-Mart! I can't remember if he uses SuSe, or if that was the name of one of his kids...
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Geek's corollary to Clarke's law
{Apu} Please do not feed [kernels] to my Elephant God.. {/Apu}
Originally it was peanuts, but what the heck.
Now we can get Apple to pull their old ads, knowing that Linux is Ghandi's official OS.
-3Suns
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with a bit of luck it will lead to another huge influx of Linux developers who speak English
/. every day, it seems there's very few English Linux users who speak English.
From the standard of most of the stories/comments I read on
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
I already like Indian food. I can't wait to see what they do with their own distros.
;)
LadoOS... CurryOS... MasalaOS... yum!
In all seriousness, I've read a lot of worried articles recently talking about the mass migration of IT jobs from the US to India (and even the migration of IT jobs from India to Singapore). As much as I hate that people are losing jobs due to shortsighted business practices, this may be how linux finally gains a dominant foothold in the computer market. I've also heard that Bangalore is really nice. Maybe it's time to renew the ol' passport and migrate.
I've been told (by Indians) that Indian students in the US must either 1) go to a really nice school, or 2) stay after their schooling and work at an American company before they have a good chance of getting a job back in India. Does anyone know if Americans with tech experience have a chance of getting a job in India?
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Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.
-- Scott Meyer
Which begs the question: Who'd harder to understand, a scot or indian guy?
Now they're going to take that job away from me?! Slashdot won't start out-sourcing anytime soon, will they?
The end is neigh...
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> A sizable percentage of Slashdot is rabidly anticonsumerist. :)
Yes, if coffee mugs, air blast cannons and HDDs do not count
even know how to turn on a computer, using XP is going to be as difficult as using a Linux flavour.
AHEM! The word is FLAVOR! I will mudwrestle anyone over this spelling.
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