>>>>> "sooraj" == soorajdathan <sooraj> writes:
sooraj> The main reason for the growth of free s/w in india may be
sooraj> the large amount of advertisement and support for
sooraj> proprietery s/ given by local Computer centers and
sooraj> educational institutions. Away from big cities, (I don't
sooraj> know what are the current circumstances outside kerala),
sooraj> no computer institute tries to teach free s/w. Instead
sooraj> they give large amount of advertisement for Office,Vb, VC,
sooraj> ASP, Oracle etc. The reason is that the institutes wants
sooraj> profit and they think that they can get a high profit only
sooraj> through teaching MS products.
sooraj> [snip]
They don't think: they know that they can make better profits by
teaching Windows.
My criterion for judging how popular a software is through market
demand. And market demand is easy to gauge through the employment
ads.
In my 10 years or whatever of scanning ads, I think I must have seen
exactly 3 that mentioned Linux and none that mentioned MySQL,
PostgreSQL, gcc, Emacs or Apache. Admittedly I haven't been doing it
too diligently, but 99.99% of the market appears to be for people
familiar with various proprietary softwares. Who the H*ll is going to
promote Linux courses then?
Regards,
-- Raju
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