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Is Linux Improving Life Of Poor In India?
mood6 writes "Linux Journal has a nice article on Automating Government with e-Governance. It discusses Linux usage by the Indian government to improve the lives of the rural poor (interesting look at how the IT boom in India is benefiting the poor). The article covers some of the difficulties in deploying Linux in non-English languages for government usage. Good read for those looking at Linux in e-Governance projects and a good follow up to a previous article by Tom Adelstein. In support of full disclosure: I wrote the article and the platform was developed by Delixus, my current company."
... when Linux becomes eatable, it will benefit the poor in India.
The application of Linux in India lowers cost of setting up a new software sweat shop. It also allows more people to be schooled in software development, that previously could not afford education. Implication => More US jobs can be outsourced, cheaper.
I am not sure any American software developer would like to do anything to help getting more IT jobs outsourced.
If there's no food - Linux counts for NOUGHT! ... .... if you ain't got no bread - cake don't matter babe!
.... but it's all meant in right earnest! .... yuk yuk yuk :) :)
... - just learn to like it !!!
And just in case you're a C-- person
NOUGHT == 0!
Or to put it another way
A Tarantino-inspired-foul-mouthed-cursing dude's rant on a "open-source-crap solves world-poverty" type of opinion.
It's almost akin to "U.S.-style-f**ked-up-democracy (or duo-cracy) is the prescription for Iraq" kind of mono-mania that seems to plague the U.S. "farc-o-cracy" - or perhaps "demo-crazy" (with a Z not a C).
Sanity is becoming increasingly rare - specially with 6 BILLION (god-damned-gloriously-uncaring) people on this clod of parched Earth we call "home".
Could'nt resist the tempation to veer off on a politico-tangent
Mod me all you want - ye evil sons of bush the lesser (or is it Bush the LOSER).
In "teen-speak" ==> "same diff" !!
I finally get it!!
r.s.k.
Well I hope that conveyed my sentiments well enough.
Linux != life
Bush ==> MadApe
US != a democracy
and
RSK.
You want everyone to live in the 3rd world and I'm the idiot? That's rich.
If you're going to resort to an attitude of "I'm right and you're just plain wrong because I say and you're an idiot because you don't agree" I'm not even going to bother arguing with you.
Learn the difference between arguing a point and making a personal attack before you reply to something. In the meantime don't bother replying because your "replies" have degenerated into insults. Grow up.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
These middle and high class dudes that claim that we know nothing of India and that their poor do not need water and food and decent living quarters make me laugh.
They feel offended if we state India it's a 3rd World Country that needs a huge reform... they feel offended if we point to the dismal conditions that a great part of their population must suffer...
It must be that they belong to that tiny percentage that sits nicely on top, beneffiting from the current status quo...
... y Dios vio que Linux era bueno... Genesis 99.666
Come on guys, we are talking about people who have never seen a computer!! So linux can't but only windows can. Here's how: If more and more "rich" people start buying Windows and its accessories then M$ India Inc will have more and more money. Then Billy Boy will be forced to found a trust in India exclusively for Indians that are poor.
There is no point in having 1000 people with $ 50 million each in an economy. We need 1 person with $ 50,000 million. Then he/she will be indifferent to money and will be spending it in lot of "good" things. So it's imperative that we make one person supra rich. Otherwise it won't work, for all the obvious reasons.
-- Pls separate your sig from your msg so that I know when to ignore it.