The Economic Times: Is Linux Really Happening in India, or Is It Just Hype?

“It’s being billed as the solution that will deliver the masses
from computer illiteracy. And so it was hardly surprising when a
recent MAIT-organised seminar on ‘Open Source Software: A New
Direction for India?’ drew a larger-than-expected audience that
stayed on till the very end.

“The seminar did throw up some very pertinent questions on open
source software (OSS) and helped quite a bit in clearing the myth
that the immediate adoption of Linux may be the solution to
India’s problems. As V Chandrashekhar, global
head of s-governance practice, TCS, explains: ‘Linux use has
increased as a result of the economic downturn and the decrease in
perceived difficulty in using it. Linux is the de facto standard in
embedded systems and in areas of high-end computing–but it will be
some time before it gets popular at the desktop level…'”

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