Dear Arujun,

That's nice little story,I really enjoyed that.But
would suggest using the word 'advocate' instead of
'sell'.

Cheers

--arky

--- Arjun Asthana <arjunasthana@...> wrote:

>
>
> 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
> >
> > <arjunasthana@g...> wrote:
> > > The problem is that CBSE forces schools to use
> Windows and other
> >
> > prop
> >
> > > software.
> > >
> > > Can any one break that?
> >
> > Hello Arjun
> >
> > It will be broken naturally when the time of Linux
> comes.
> >
> > There is Engineering education where they dont
> force to use Windows
> > for C/C++ programming, Java etc.
> >
> > But nobody uses Linux to do these things in
> Engineering colleges
> > (There may be only few colleges who are doing so).
> >
> > There is also syllabus in Engineering where Word ,
> Excel , powerpoint
> > is part of the introductory computer syllabus in
> First year.
> >
> > Engineering colleges and professional institutes
> shamelessly use
> > pirated software (It may be true for CBSE and
> other schools also).
> >
> >
> > If the Universities and Government enforce the
> rule of legal software
> > usage, these institutes will have no other option
> but to use Linux.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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 ?).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Herald.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >



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