I'll tell you a story. This, you should be able to find in the cronicles of
some tech history books/sites.

There was a company called Zilog. Constituted by a break away group of Intel
engineers, who had designed 8080, an 8 bit processor. Zilog designed Z80, a
hugely successful 8 bit processor, on which later, CP/M (a very basic OS) was
standardised.

Zilog also produced Z8000, a 16 bit processor, which was technologically far
superior to 8086. BTW I've used both, along with 68000 (Motorola) and some
wonderful 8 bit ones 1602, 6800, 6502, Z80, 8080/5 etc for designing various
control/processing systems.

However, IBM was impressed with Intel's marketing and went on to design the
IBM PC using 8086/88. Rest is history. Not to mention that the Mars buggy was
run by Z80, where technology was of paramount importance.

The moral of the story is: marketing sells not the technology. Thats the
reason M$ sells and not Linux. The sooner it is understood, better it is.

Lets sell Linux and not wait for the events to lead the way. That way may
never come.

Regards
Atul Asthana

On Saturday 27 November 2004 22:24, linux_schools wrote:
> --- In linux_schools@..., Arjun Asthana
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> <arjunasthana@g...> wrote:
> > The problem is that CBSE forces schools to use Windows and other
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> > Can any one break that?
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> Hello Arjun
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> It will be broken naturally when the time of Linux comes.
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> There is Engineering education where they dont force to use Windows
> for C/C++ programming, Java etc.
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> But nobody uses Linux to do these things in Engineering colleges
> (There may be only few colleges who are doing so).
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> There is also syllabus in Engineering where Word , Excel , powerpoint
> is part of the introductory computer syllabus in First year.
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> Engineering colleges and professional institutes shamelessly use
> pirated software (It may be true for CBSE and other schools also).
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> If the Universities and Government enforce the rule of legal software
> usage, these institutes will have no other option but to use Linux.
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> When Microsoft comes in search of their baby, we have no other option
> but to give up the baby and also pay fines (We may have to learn how
> many zeros are there in a million) . The fines will be so huge all
> the institutes would go bankrupt paying the fine and close shutters.
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> Everybody is saying, no such thing will happen soon. Yes it will not
> happen soon because the number computers in India are only around 1
> Crore. Let it multiply to 5 to 10 crores, which may happen quickly if
> the prices of computers comes to around Rs.10 thousand. (Who would
> have imagined mobile phones will reach more than 4.5 crores in such a
> small time span exceeding the land line phones ?).
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> We may have to wait a little more longer may be 2 to 4 years when
> dozens of countries, 100s of big companies rush to use Linux in a
> large scale . Then there will be a great conversion boom similar to
> Y2K projects. It may be called W2k+8 bug or the big MSW bug. The bug
> is not easy to remove. More than 90 percent of the computers would
> have to be completely cleaned of this bug.
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> People who have very few computers like India (< 1%) better not
> install the bug on new computers. Otherwise India may have to spend
> Billions of Dollars as the USA did for becoming stingy for 2 digits of
> a year as in Y2K bug.
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> Cheers
> Herald.
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Regards,
Arjun Asthana

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