----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bytesforall_readers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 3:59 sakal Subject: [bytesforall_readers] [Withoutfrontiers] a copy of windows costs $42725 in india (fwd) > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > [crosspost apologies] > > on the topic of "piracy" being "bad" for the south: > > in preparation for next week's geneva jamboree, the World Summit on the > Information Society, i've prepared a table comparing the $560 cost of a > single windows + office licence to GDP/capita for 176 countries and some > geographical aggregates. in india, GDP/capita is $462 so the licence cost > of windows is 14.5 months of average income, translated into US terms that's > $42725. not surprisingly, the higher this effective cost, the higher the > BSA-estimated piracy rate. for this table and some further argument on the > importance of free software for developing countries (skills development) see > http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ghosh/index.html > > best, > rishab > > > _______________________________________________ > Withoutfrontiers mailing list > Withoutfrontiers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.mahiti.org/mailman/listinfo/withoutfrontiers >