[lowcostcomputing] Fw: [bytesforall_readers] [Withoutfrontiers] a copy of windows costs$42725 in india (fwd)

  • From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshanmukhopadhyay@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: Low Cost Computing <lowcostcomputing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 06:42:40 +0530

----- 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
>
>
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