[ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

[Rishi]

> Ideologies take time to get induced and spread.

This reminds me of my own experience. I was first introduced to Linux  
in 1996 by a great friend in IIT (Amitay). I had no knowledge of the  
GNU/Linux portion at that time.

Then in 1999, my firm started a company to sell services using Linux  
based servers. On one of my sales call to ANZ, I was telling the IT  
manager why Linux is so great, but I was stuck when he asked me why  
the OS was free.

Then in 2001, I attended a public lecture at TIFR given by RMS and  
that was a new day for me.

It was only that day, I realized
- Free and Open Source software were quite different
- The word 'free' in Free software was about freedom and not price

So in my case the ideology happened after 5 years of using the  
software. :-)