weird. I have had managerial roles in both diverse and er...culturally INVERSE workplaces. anytime someone that was "not with the program" was hired things would always get heated for awhile. perhaps the ad was posted with this in mind. anyways, damn what a touchy subject. i got lit for a post that wasnt nearly as charged as this. hehe
back to my rockstar and burritto.

May be Indian's well in English but China growing well in all the ways

Actually, it is now the season for students and projects in India. So you will get many more people signing on and doing a different type of project. Notice that most of them go away after about May end. Also, most serious projects have to be done on Linux.

In India, there is one state (southern Indian state of Kerala) which promotes use of Linux in governance. Mr. Richard Stallman is a frequent invitee to functions and seminars organised in this state. However, the majority by far use Windows. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gives more aid to India even though there is more suffering in Africa. It would be interesting to see whether the quantum of aid is proportional to the expected market share.

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Just more proof that Bill Gates is an idiot.

Or a pragmatist.

Huh...?! Which Indians?

The Sioux, the Crow the Cheyenne or the Apache ?

ROFL

... really, I think that Linux in India has a very large user base... in terms of Distro preference, I think they stick to RHEL/Fedora

... i guess that rpm -ivh <whatever> is more their kind than gdebi <whatever> or installpkg <something>...

They don't like *buntus/Debians or Slackware or Arch... RHELs CentOS or Fedoras ( it's the rpm/yum thingie... plus the amazing electric-bluish wallpapers )

You are incorrect....no one that builds a successful company is an "idiot". Please consider looking up the term in a dictionary.

More to the point, please do not contribute to the derailment of this thread.......

That's a reasonable conclusion from the posts on LQ but I have not seen a RHEL/Fedora or met anybody that uses one (I don't get out much ). Locally ubuntu is used and I have seen a SUSE system.

The preponderance of RHEL seen on LQ might have more to do with the high value placed on certification in India than with the installed base.

Here in Kolkata, there are only a few people who uses anything other than RHEL/Fedora, don't know why though :|

I would differ a bit on that. Ubuntu has got a big share of desktop market here in India. I myself use one. If you want to talk about servers, yes may be RHEL. But I personally prefer CentOS. Fedora is used by people wanting to be developers or who are already. Workstation use of Fedora is more than Ubuntu though. And because RH certifications have got huge value here, RH/CentOS or Fedora becomes first choice.

The Sioux are the Brave...

They stick to Slackware Arch or BLFS,

They are not afraid of the Wild Horses in the prairie, nor do they fear the Eagle or the Thunder...

Actually it was once discussed that the best way to help Africa is to not offer any money to it at all, and I am inclined to believe that, since monetary donations disappear 'mysteriously' into the void, and the people who need it most never get it. This could also correspond to the corruption thread, but since African countries are perhaps the most corrupt in the world, it would be best to try to help in other ways instead.

Kolkata has a reputation for smart people ...

IMHO You cannot claim a particular city is any smarter overall then any other as there is probably no good proof.

Dumb peoples vs smart peoples proportion is always 1:1 in anywhere in the world