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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!
This is interesting, especially with all the IT outsourcing to India that we have seen lately. Could mean for yet cheaper outsourcing costs here in the US- if people start using Red Hat at home, maybe they will want to use it at work.
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.
Boy, gotta love how well these Reuters journalists research comments to make sure they are truthful!
With so many Indians in the software industry already, maybe we will start seeing some more great open source software come from India.
they are fighting poverty by spending less on MS.
Who took my tinfoil hat?
...about 10 percent of India's personal computers will be sold with Linux...
That's a lotta' cash for SCO....
Shouldn't India be using the OS with the lowest TCO so they can spend money on fighting poverty?
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.
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Microsoft has such a strong monopoly in the west, breaking ground is hard enough here. So the easy solution seems to be just hook the Chinese and Indians onto Linux and the enormous software base that will result will put Microsoft at a severe disadvantage. It doesnt help either than the average cost of Windows XP is a month's salary of the average person with a computer there. Microsoft can use huge discounts, but they cannot beat the 100% discount Linux/BSD offers.
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Almost all of the UK's tech support call centres are located in India because it costs less. Since call centres require so many PCs, I wouldn't be suprised that they don't want to pay high MS prices for OSs. Linux to the rescue, especially for a somewhat poor country.
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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...
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Originally it was peanuts, but what the heck.
Makes me wish I had relatives in Bangalore...
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Linux actually needs to win soon in one of the populous developing countries (I include China in this category); it would've been nice to be China, but I'm under the impression Microsoft doesn't stop copies of it's operating system quite so hard there as it would here.
India would be good, especially since a lot of IT is done over there; with a bit of luck it will lead to another huge influx of Linux developers who speak English
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As more corporate attention is paid to India's computer industry, the tolerance for pirated copies of Windows is doubtlessly getting lower; and thus there's pressure to either pay for a real copy of Windows for each desk (pricey by Indian standards) or find something else legal.
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I'm sure Indians will enjoy getting a high quality freely-modifiable operating system for almost no money.
It will enable more of their domestic industry to gain the advantages of information technology that enable the kinds of productivity growth rates the US has seen in the last decade or so.
Here in the US, as a Linux user, I'm looking forward to gaining from this development as well.
From a population of 1e9, the country produces a fair share of the world's brilliant programmers.
Plus, they can read and write English, which gives them a head start relative to China, which possesses a like number of intelligent programmers.
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They have one small disadvantage - they barely make a living there. And when you don't have enough money to feed your family the last thing you'd do is work for free so that some american (or german) company sells your software for profit. Open Source works when it's subsidized by your salary (or time stolen from your employer). If your salary doesn't leave much room for subsidizing anything - you go somewhere and find an evening job.
The commands dont make sense in christianity or islam language?
Maybe because Christianity, and Islam are not languages, have you thought of that.
..that from the article Bill Gates dropping $400million into India helps increase sales of non-Microsoft products.
:-)
Maybe the Indian people are better at seeing through the charade and snake-oil salesmanship than we are... or can you come up with a better reason?
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"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"
And what percentage of the buyers of these computers will be just buying them to only to escape the Microsoft tax and then install a Windows bootleg?
I swear, piracy has to be the biggest threat to Linux in the developing world. Ironically, It's better for Microsoft if you steal their software than it is for you to install Linux.
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If you come from zero, it's not hard to gain ground.
No, but seriously, I see indians as a great helper for the linux community, people there don't have al lot of money to pay those expensive microsoft licences and I'm sure some great code will come from that country.
I know they work hard and are very motivated.
I already like Indian food. I can't wait to see what they do with their own distros.
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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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1. What does Bill Gates think of this? He's been donating millions of dollars to India as part of his Bill Gates Foundation philanthropy project, and IIRC some (most?) of it was under the guise of AIDS relief. Being the pessimest that I am, I always felt that Gates pumped so much money into India to prime the tech workers over there for taking over US jobs. Who knows, maybe Gates knew a long time ago that every US programming/tech support job would get moved offshore, and prepared for it by assuring himself that India knew How Microsoft Plays Ball (tm). So with Indians now embracing Linux, are they preparing to ditch MS in favor of other technologies?
On a related note, does that mean that now I have to worry about being beat out of a linux sys admin job by the ever-growing fleet of L-1's? Cnn.com has a good yet depressing look at this today, here. I kind of pride myself on not just being another VB.NET hack or MS2000 Server clone out there looking for jobs. I'd become even more angry at the world if these jobs became a thing of the past (at least here in MN) as well.
Just some thoughts.
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Neither is Hindu. It's a religion too. I think that was the point.
Are you sure you're not possessed? You know, one sign is falling into trance and writing incoherently..
Nor is Hindu, which was his point. Original post should have read Hindi.
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+0, Meh. Welcome to the flip side of the globalization that brings you cheap and plentiful consumer goods.
In any case, I think you're confusing the concept of " bastard Indians stole my job" with "motherfscking greedy employers decided to screw working Americans in order to add a few pennies to the bottom line". Why attack the pawns when the king is in plain view?
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nice :)
In other news, it's not like the folks in India are just along for the ride. I remember maybe two years ago when I was struck by how generous those generally poorer folks could be when they came up with Everyone's Linux. It apparently costs US$65 ordered directly. It might make a great birthday gift for your relative if your relative is Bill Gates. With all the extra money you save, maybe add a zero gun and some caffeinated soap as a nice touch.
I think it was in reference to this def. >> 1 : an adherent of Hinduism not >> 2 : a native or inhabitant of India
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Just make sure to blame all those Indians working in Banaglore meat grinders for a quarter of US wages for your lack of a job. Whatever you do, dont blame American companies for your job loss. That would be unpatriotic!
no, they are taking a chance on a great product before their infrastructure becomes microsoft dependant. those who can afford computers don't fit my description of poverty level...
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This shouldn't be too surprizing considering:
1. The general education of India is more technical and scientific than in arts and such. Therefore a larger interest in the more "geeky" technical things. This is a big generalization.
2. Given the existance of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) and that it's tougher to get into there than it is MIT and UC Berkely, it just re-itterates #1 above.
3. And of course, the fact that the GNP per capita in USD is $380 per year makes things tough to learn or use anything that costs a significant amount of money. Now, the $380 is very low and is mainly this low because of the VERY rural towns and villages. In the city it is significantly higher, but not enough to call the average high or rich.
4. Given low income and abundance of people, anyone doing any job will have to do it their best, therefore they will try to use the least amount of resources in order to accomplish the most. Using something free helps in this respect as you save on capital - a very important resource.
This post might seem as a very one-sided post, but I can't think of any reason why MS would be at all useful here. If someone doesn't even know how to turn on a computer, using XP is going to be as difficult as using a Linux flavour.
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Does anybody know if/when India is thinking (like China) about developping its own linux distro?
... that was before Linux changed the spelling from "flavour" to "flavor"!
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I think the history repeats itself. Back in 1970s, IBM wanted to gain market for its mainframes in India.
But as we all know the Mainframe hardware, software and services costs lots of $$$.
So instead placing bets on a proprietory vendor with lots of money, the government officials decided to go without it.
This presented an opportunity for others. Indian companies like HCL licensed inexpensive Unix from AT&T, built their own hardware and modified the source code to run on their hardware.
All the universities and banks had modest computing power running on a version of Unix.
Students learnt Unix not OS 390 and it turned out that Unix is the future and mainframes were obsolete. We all now know why this is good for India.
The same thing happening now, instead of IBM substitute M$.
So lack of money can sometimes be advantageous.
As Mahatma Gandhi said, too little and too much wealth are not good for well-being of the society.
How comforting it is to know that when my entire tech support dept gets outsourced to India, my former employer will be unwittingly using linux.
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
If more people use linux, there will be more linux applications. If more people use linux, applications written for linux will be user tested more. I dont think there is a "market" as such for linux. Linux, after all, is free. In any case, most personal users in India and china dont pay for software(MS or Linux).
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"Public domain" is equivalent to "common knowledge" in most respects: you can do whatever you want with it and you don't have to tell anybody about it, although it might not be that common or obvious.
Not so with most open source licenses (especially GPL), otherwise MS would be shipping Office for Linux since 2000.
They have one small disadvantage - they barely make a living there.
India has an enormous (and growing) middle class.
-jcr
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Why would anyone want to have to settle for a wimpy box because the M$ tithe is the difference between a killer box and a wimpy box.
Its a no brainer. Linux rules. (The same economic pressure that gave rise to clones [and floated M$ boat] are going to wipe M$ off the map.
The fact that Linux is better, stabler, supported by the world-wide open-source community is gravy but the fact is that boxen with M$ cost more and M$ is doomed to die.
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Although this article says that "About 10 percent of India's personal computers will be sold with Linux rather than Microsoft operating systems by March, 2004...", my guess is when you count all of the existing Windows systems in India and all of the computers that will be running pirated versions of Windows by March, 2004, the Linux market share starts to look pretty darn small.
Microsoft appears to be one of the few companies where the management is smarter (in a Machiavellian way, like they're supposed to be) than the coders.
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Welcome to the flip side of the globalization that brings you cheap and plentiful consumer goods.
Uh-huh. Do you see many of us asking for that? Hell, no. A sizable percentage of Slashdot is rabidly anticonsumerist. And if you remember the comments posted during the anti-globalism rallies during the WTO conference in Seattle a few years back, those were also generally anti"globalist". (Globalist in quotes because what we're seeing is a small upper class looting economies, not real global development)
In any case, I think you're confusing the concept of " bastard Indians stole my job" with "motherfscking greedy employers decided to screw working Americans in order to add a few pennies to the bottom line". Why attack the pawns when the king is in plain view?
On this, we agree. Don't blame the Indians - they'll be in the same place you are in ten years time or worse. (When the companies currently employing them move on to some other third-world country that they've convinced to improve its "high-tech sector") Go after the bastards driving the looting to line their pockets.
"Why attack the pawns when the king is in plain view?" because the king has a machine gun and the pawns just throw rocks.
One of the quotes from a presentation by John "Maddog" Hall a few years ago at ApacheCon was that "with 500 million personal computers in the world, that means that there are still 5.5 billion that haven't chosen their operating system yet." I always liked that saying.
Linux makes quite a bit of practical sense in India. No indian can really afford to pay retail for software. Even the $40 that is the (rumored) cost of windows to PC OEMS is something most people just cannot pay in addition to the huge price of a computer. The OS and the office suite are thus mostly pirated, and usually include a plethora of free viruses...Ditto for the development environments. Everyone who is serious about learning comp/programming realizes sooner o\r later that instead of trying to pirate each and every tool one needs for a dev environment, its just better to move to linux. :P
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In addition to that, there are magazine like PC Quest which have distributed free linux distro CDs (and include loads of good linux articles) with the magazine since around 1994. These CDs are how i got hooked on linux. That helps...
In my college, the IITs linux has long been the OS of choice in comp labs. They would rather buy a few more PCs than spend the huge ammount on WIN+DEV STUDIO, (even after the educational discount), and even when i was there, 5 years back, students, even non power users clearly preferred the linux systems over the NT systems...to the end where they migrated the NT ones to linux too.
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I've seen a lot of comments here about avoiding the windows tax. This doesn't take into account the fact that very few people actually buy branded computers like HP etc. Most of them are assembled from parts and sold by companies/individuals who ask you what software you want on you computer and then load up pirated versions of everything you ask. Considering that name brand computers are almost 2x or more costly this is what most people buy.
Another things is the whole $380 per year thing is misleading due to disparities in income and because India has a much lower cost of living and fairly large number of middle class families can afford computers. Most of my friends and relatives have computers.
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Why must you post such tripe anonymously? Are you afraid we'll find something out that you don't want people knowing?
Most of the people who post on this site and are pro-open source/pro-linux are adults with a high degree of intelligence.
Just because you lack that same level of intelligence doesn't mean you can go around bashing other people's comments. Go back to your Windows box with your small brain pan and play more Solitaire.
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Blame the companies that don't care about their workers and would rather have 1,000 camels coding than 1 guy that actually has inconvenient things like families and car payments
gross disrespect for another human being. its called racism in some parts. Its also a part of uncle Osama's hate speeches.
Just because there are more machines being sold wint Linux does not really mean that Linux is "gaining ground" in terms of prefered OS. It could mean that the Indians are simply trying to avoid the microsoft tax that comes with new machines. In fact, they could just load up pirated winXP after they purchase those Linux installed machines. In a country with lax copyright/intelectual property laws, why not?
The big proprietary vendors have been leaning on governments lately to enforce copyrights. How is your small to medium sized business going to pay for those licenses when the Indian equivalent of the BSA raids you? For that matter, suppose a few of those Bombay CD vendors got chucked in the pokey or least hit with huge fines. That $1.47 situation could change in a hurry if the right politicians over there were properly motivated.
Maybe passing up the "free" Windows is a smarter choice than it looks.
Now they're going to take that job away from me?! Slashdot won't start out-sourcing anytime soon, will they?
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> A sizable percentage of Slashdot is rabidly anticonsumerist. :)
Yes, if coffee mugs, air blast cannons and HDDs do not count
While his rant was immature and probably intentionally flamebaity, his point has more validity than yours. How the hell does anyone living in Amerca (or Brittain, or France, etc...) have a chance of competing with someone who will do his/her job for wages that would leave an American/Brit/Frenchie homless and near starvation?
I can't live on what they pay Indian tech people. I can't afford groceries on those wages (and I eat cheap!), to hell with car payments/bus tokens, insurance, my mortgage, or any of the other costs of living my life. And this doesn't even include ANY luxuries like TV, Internet, clothes, pets, etc...
It doesn't matter how much time and energy anyone spends improving their skillsets. There will be people of equal skills in India, Russia, or whatever economically depressed countries out there that will do the same job for almost nothing. It's not the skills you have that matter anymore. It's how little management can pay to get the work done so they can make the next quarterly report look good and collect those fat cost-savings bonuses.
The only point that this guy is really wrong about is that he's hating the wrong people. It's not the Indians that he should be hating. It's the CEO's that are sending his job overseas that he should hate.
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It's ok, you're just an f'in geek. You didn't expect to live any better than your neighbors who screwed off in school did you? You work because you LIKE it. Keep it up...
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The only point that this guy is really wrong about is that he's hating the wrong people. It's not the Indians that he should be hating. It's the CEO's that are sending his job overseas that he should hate.
That is a complete crock. The CEO's (IOW, the customers for his labor) have no duty to pay more than they have to get the job done, just because the whiner happens to live in the same country that they do.
India's current prosperity is a result of abandoning their marxist habits. We're not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into that old "class warfare" line of tripe.
-jcr
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And programmers typically live above the powerty level. Yet overwhelming majority of free software is developed by US and European programmers. Weird, huh? :0) Simply because you earn enough money to buy decent food (and that may make you "middle class" in countries like India) doesn't mean you're well off. You've got to buy a house for your family, a car and put your kids through the college (while financially supporting them, because there's no way in hell a bank would give them a loan). This doesn't leave you much money or time to spend on free software, even though you look insanely rich when compared to a farmer from a redneck town.
If Indians are so keen on getting open source stuff, how come they dont contribute much (I'm speaking proportion wise here; so many Indian programmers and so few open source developers per Indian programmer) The only contributions I've seen so far were some LaTeX packages for Indian languages and some Emacs themes. BTW, I'm from India, so flames don't touch me :)
But Netcraft says www.nse-india.com is running Solaris 8...
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Well... Yeah. As a group, we do tend to have a weekness for cool toys. Especially cool toys with penguins on them. ;)
But a lot of those things are fairly good arguments against "globalization". They're for niche markets and are already fairly expensive to make, so having them produced by a guy who's being paid a decent wage instead of prison labour isn't going to add much to the unit price. Maybe $10-15 max, not nearly enough to affect buying decisions at that price. Heck, having more households in the economy with more cash to spend might drive the price of those goods down.
In the push for globalization, businesses seem to have forgotten about the "households" side of the economic equation. Oops.
I hope they can really get a good jump on Open Source and use it to boost their local economy. I was born and raised in the good ole' USA. However, I am saddened by the fact that Americans make up ONLY 5% of the worlds population yet we have snatched up more then 50% of the worlds wealth. That seems like excessive greed to me. This leaves the other 95% (like India) to fight over less then 50% of the worlds wealth. Again, this just doesn't seem right to me. I hope ALL non-US nations can really build up THEIR OWN IT and not be reliant on the USA and espcially MS. While I think international trade is important, I think the majority of any nations IT should stay in that nation. Maybe India will not be selling it's IT wares internationally, but it could really spark it's own industry and keep India's money where it belongs, in India.
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The primary appeal of Linux is low cost: $0.00. with Windows being free in India, the typical Indian will not be interested in using Linux. Windows has significantly more applications that run on it than Linux. Off course, those applications are also "free".
Similar comments apply to China. China (which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan) is the software-piracy capital of the world. More then 90% of the software used in China is pirated. Here are some references to solidly support the aforementioned observations.
We are losing are jobs to India because we've closed immigration in this country. Please here me out on this.
Employers have been taking it out on H1-B visas for a while. They treat them like slave labor. So guess what, these guys go back to their home countries and lure our greedy corporations to throw some business their way. We closed immigration in this country because we've created a system of "entitlements" that we can't afford to offer to most of our low paying immigrants (i.e. like Mexican laborers in California). These social programs are draining the system. We shut down our immigration. Also our corporate masters manage to convince Washington (via lobbyists) that there's a "shortage" of technically skilled people in the US. So there is a feast on cheap H1-B visa (read indentured servant) labor in this country. Instead of having all of these H1-B's becoming highly skilled, highly paid American citizens who contribute taxes to our economy and are paid at a fair market value (thus not screwing us American geeks), we for some reason (ignorantly) believe that closing our borders (and putting our heads in the sand [or somewhere else]) is going to solve the problem. We need to open immigration in this country. We need to strike a balance between sensible social programs and reasonable tax laws in this country. We need to wake up before the Kenny Lays of this world put the screw to our wonderful American economy.
If I could recommend one book on economics, please read "Wealth of Nations". I don't care what your ideology is. Our country embodies the notions found in this book.
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This is simply more unwarranted optimism and euphoria.
The whole of India is licking up Microsoft's toilet water.
Microsoft will win, as it does everywhere else, and with even more vigor.
The majority of potential users will want to use their native language on it, and Microsoft has a virtual monoply on it with their agreement with CDAC which essentially holds the monopoly on the established standards for multilingual software --and they only provide Windows software. ONLY for Windows (yeah, some shit for Solaris too, but only limited and who knows up to when)
Globalization was intiated by you people. As long as you can have your Nike shoes for cheap, employing cheap labour is okay, but when it comes to you yourself, then you have a problem.
Wake up dude, welcome to the new global order, the borderless workd.
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OK That's it. Let's give India back to Indians!
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How the hell did this get modded +5. Wow, the moderators are in a racist mood today - all WASPs lurking?
They could install a legacy system, but probably don't, because they must get their work done to stay competitive and installing a copy of legacy systems like Windows would not only be illegal, it would decrease productivity -- more time spent trying to keep the machines running, more time per machine in corrective mainenance, fewer remote admin possiblitities and so on.
Most shops just pay the MS tax and do the very first boot directly from the Linux or *BSD install CD.
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What, between the DMCA, EULAS, Bush in the big house, the Reichssicherheitsamt (sorry Office of Homeland Security) and RIAA/MPAA, I thought it was illegal to blame American companies, for anything. (Seriously; Oprah being sued for defaming the Texas meat industry should probably be in there as well).
It no doubt will be shortly if it isn't already.
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Just wondering, how do they figure out how many illegal software copies are being used ?
I cannot vouch for the numbers, but software piracy is indeed rampant in India. I would be surprised, though, if the software companies use pirated versions.
How many hours a week do you find acceptable?
Do you know people that work more then that or less then that?
Do you work more or less then that?
If you answer, I'll explain my question.
Two minutes? Under Windows, copying a file from one folder to another would be instantaneous (assuming it's on the same drive, you didn't say). I regularly copy around CD images, and drive-to-drive transfers only take a few seconds. Transfers across our 100Mbps network only take a minute or so. And I'd glady do all that file copying WHILE burning another disc, listening to WinAmp, and doing actual work in the foreground.
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