[Fsf-friends] And now the Kerala Electricity Board goes Microsoft

[Raj Shekhar]

Suraj Kumar wrote:

> yes.  I had once written a letter to the editor of the Hindu about the
> importance of free software and the  role it can play in education. It
> came up. but to what  benefit? 

Maybe a fullscale article would be nice. I am willing to work with you 
on this. It has been on my mind for some time now. Can you forward me 
the letter ?

> All of this means the politicians get to launder lesser money and that
> means smaller  scope for their corruption to  flourish. 

I think we always keep underestimating the power of democracy. I am 
currently working in Synapse, where we have Dr. Gurunandan Bhatt, who 
was one of the first people to bring GNU/Linux to India. I came to knpw 
from the people here that he used to go and meet government officers and 
persuade them to see the light. This was so effective that people from 
M$ came looking for him to Synapse :-).

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Raj Shekhar	
http://geocities.com/lunatech3007/