[Discussioni]Newsscan

[Emanuele Olivetti]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:50:33AM +0100, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> 
> OPEN SOURCE VS. MICROSOFT IN INDIA
> The "open source" free-software movement had hoped to make big inroads in 
> poverty-stricken India, but has run into a big obstacle -- a company called 
> Microsoft, which has been making large donations of its own proprietary 
> software to Indian government offices at both the federal and state level. 
> Richard Stallings, founder of the Free Software Foundation, is complaining: 
          ^^^^^^^^^
?????


"Microsoft would invest $400 million in India for computer literacy
programs and to expand the company's partnerships and activities"
(da siliconvalley.com)

Non e' che questo vuol dire che micorsoft regalera' 400 milioni di $
in licenze di propri software che in realta' a lei non costano nulla?
Per il resto mi sembra un'iniziativa analoga a quella italiana
("progetto docente") o svizzera (dove micorsoft ha "comprato" la scuola
dall'asilo all' universita').

I 100 milioni di $ di microsoft per la lotta all'aids in India mi sembrano
comunque una buona cosa, anche se queste strategie di marketing
sulla pelle dei malati dei paesi poveri sono un insulto al genere umano.
Speriamo che almeno questi soldi non siano virtuali.


						Emanuele Stallings


> "Proprietary software companies hand out free copies for the same reason 
> that cigarette companies give sample packs to college kids -- to encourage 
> addiction."  But India seems to be quite happy to accept Microsoft's 
> largesse, and the information secretary of the Karnataka state government 
> defends Microsoft against Stallings' charges: "You should not make 
> accusations against a company because it is successful. We are a poor 
> country. We cannot develop operating systems and platforms on our own." 
> Open source advocate Frederick Noronha, however, insists there already 
> exist many open source applications that India could use: "And many more 
> are coming. Further, it would cost next to nothing to develop new software 
> on open source." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 14 Nov 2002)
> http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4516363.htm
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