Comments on: Free won’t sell in India http://binarykarma.org/2007/05/25/free-wont-sell-in-india/ There is karma in the bits Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:43:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tinku http://binarykarma.org/2007/05/25/free-wont-sell-in-india/comment-page-1/#comment-7225 Tinku Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:52:34 +0000 http://binarykarma.org/archives/63#comment-7225 Student can understand things in the right manner. Since, about whatever they think, they try to generate the questions like 'Why?' and 'How?' most times in their mind. Elder people will not care about generating such queries in their mind since they will focus most times on the result with out bothering these queries. To understand 'Freedom' in Free Software, those questions proves to be helpful. Thats why, in Kerala, students of high schools are very much aware of Free Software as compared to other classes. I saw many of my school going cousins and 'chota' friends in Kerala showing a great interest towards Free Software which they learn from 8th standard as the part of IT education. They explore GNU/Linux distributions installed at their school computer lab PCs with a great interest. But again it will take much years to produce Computer Teachers who can guide students to tinker with Source Code so that they can understand 'Freedom' in the technical level. Student can understand things in the right manner. Since, about whatever they think, they try to generate the questions like ‘Why?’ and ‘How?’ most times in their mind. Elder people will not care about generating such queries in their mind since they will focus most times on the result with out bothering these queries. To understand ‘Freedom’ in Free Software, those questions proves to be helpful. Thats why, in Kerala, students of high schools are very much aware of Free Software as compared to other classes.

I saw many of my school going cousins and ‘chota’ friends in Kerala showing a great interest towards Free Software which they learn from 8th standard as the part of IT education. They explore GNU/Linux distributions installed at their school computer lab PCs with a great interest. But again it will take much years to produce Computer Teachers who can guide students to tinker with Source Code so that they can understand ‘Freedom’ in the technical level.

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