[Fsf-friends] CSIR uses only Microsoft

[Harish CM]

Mr M senthil kumar wrote:

>Dear All,
>This discussion on the dependance of M$ products by the organizations only
>reminds me of the good old (but famous) 'fortune' cookie:
>
>Imagine that Cray computer decides to make a personal computer.  It has
>a 150 MHz processor, 200 megabytes of RAM, 1500 megabytes of disk
>storage, a screen resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, relies entirely on
>voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300.
>What's the first question that the computer community asks?
>
>"Is it PC compatible?"
>
>Regards,
>
>Senthil
>
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Looking back to the days of my initiation into computing (there weren't 
any desktops then - and the very first desktop experience of mine was on 
CP/M!), it was solely used for number crunching, rather  to do chores 
that can only be handled by this "stupid calculator - rather fast" device.

Desktops - the way it was introduced - by the IBM/M$ combine - has many 
parallels - with story of many a drug addict - in the beginning 
everything was free/easily available (nothing was free really; only they 
all seemed to look the other way!) until addicted - after that, the 
noose tightened?

We ended up zombies? do we need to?



-- 
Dr CM Harish
Geomatics Lab, CESS
Thiruvananthapuram - 695 031, India.
Tel: 91-471-2442451/Extn 345; Fax: 2442280
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