I am living in India since 3 years. (few kilometers from Kerala)
FYI, a standard salary is around 90 dollars/month.
As a CIO, I bought this month one M$ Visio Pro licence. Microsoft charged me ~400 dollars (using volume license discount !!).
So what's happening ? People usually pirate software...
So what do you prefer ? Learning Linux and respect software licenses or teaching to crack and pirate Microsoft software ?
Actually Microsoft is very happy with the second option because people can't use anything else that their software. I choose the first option.
When you say "By forcing the students to use only free software..." I think you miss the point. Education ministry made another choice : Shall I hire 1 teacher during 1 year or shall I buy some M$ product ?
And when the students are going back home, if they want to spend their parent's half an year salary to use these microsoft software... Well they "can" do it.
But please, do not ask the Kerala Govt to waste so much money...
| | Sebastien L | | Date: 2008-03-11, 23:37 GMT |
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