[ Thanks to RobW
for this link. ]
“Vijay Shekhar, who runs a team of 60 people sending scores to
cricket-crazy fans through India’s booming cell phone networks,
feared that using cheap Linux software for his business could cause
problems.“Instead, Shekhar says he loves the Linux operating system after
paying only a tenth of the 400,000-rupee ($8,703) cost of the
competing Windows package from Microsoft Corp.“About 10 percent of India’s personal computers will be sold
with Linux rather than Microsoft operating systems by March, 2004,
says Linux distributor Red Hat Inc, up from nothing in
January…”