“Can Bangalore emulate Silicon Valley?”

Thursday, January 8, 2004

If intellectual masturbation is your game, there is an orgy in progress at the Chip-India Blogs. Ponder the depths of such thoughts as:

fus — Jan 8, 2004 2:23:26 AM — # ↩

the "Linux needs to get real" reads like it could have well been written in the 1990s or earlier.

the mp3 issue is a triviality (common people who want to watch a divX on windows very much do download a plugin for the media player, and install it), doing the same for mp3 on RH is not any different.
- madhav — Jan 8, 2004 8:20:44 AM — # ↩
  
  Personally, I agreed with the Linux article.
  
  Just realized that putting up a comment like that out here is inviting trouble. Uh-oh !
  - fus — Jan 8, 2004 2:02:50 PM — # ↩
    
    tht we will remedy by installing linux on your machine after you get back from chennai.
    
    you are going to be set FREE
    - madhav — Jan 9, 2004 2:00:35 AM — # ↩
      
      Oh, I've had linux installed on one partition for the past three years. Just that I've no clue what to do with it ! None of my favorite games run on it and gaming is what I use the comp for (or at least did, till last year).
      
      PS: I'm still in Blr, btw. The Chennai trip is just for a few days starting the 21st.
      - fus — Jan 9, 2004 4:38:02 AM — # ↩
        
        3 years is a long long time. and it has changed a lot. i will land there with the *latest" cdz sometime :-D, yeah gaming i do agree, but the rest is good to go.
        
        how are you placed 17-18 ? i could swing by :-D. i hope sindha doesnt curse me for shamelessly inviting myself over like this
        (tehe : not just for the install, but randomly too :-) )
        
        madhav — Jan 9, 2004 4:47:10 AM — # ↩
        
        Sure, feel free to drop by. Just give a call a few hours before you do. Not a problem at all !
- satyap — Jan 8, 2004 10:43:16 AM — # ↩
  
  One of my co-workers can get just about any media format on his Linux box.
  - evan — Jan 8, 2004 3:05:20 PM — # ↩
    
    i always laugh about how i can actually play *more* media formats on my linux box because all of the codecs have been nicely collected by dedicated hackers.
    - fus — Jan 9, 2004 1:10:45 AM — # ↩
      
      second that.
tushar — Jan 8, 2004 5:02:36 AM — # ↩

I was reading their latest issue last night, and felt the same way. The editor really should stay away from opinion pieces.
bijoyv — Jan 9, 2004 5:29:21 AM — # ↩

Can Bangalore emulate Silicon Valley?

Emulate is fine. Imitate is the problem. Which do you think the new citizenry have in mind?
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Jan 9, 2004 1:50:20 PM — # ↩
  
  I'm not sure if there is much in common between the two places other than people banging away at keyboards. I don't get the point of these comparisons. I really don't.
  
  Silicon Valley rose out of the wild west, in rebellion against the financial-institutions mandated way of doing things in the east. The new thing at that time was computer technology, and computer technology is what Silicon Valley did, and did very well.
  
  The new thing now is not high-tech, but using high-tech for global information delivery, and that is what Bangalore is doing, and doing very well.
  
  As Russell Nelson points out very effectively, the dollars Bangalore earns from America are of no use in India. Dollars can't be spent here. They have to go back to America to be spent on non-money goods (or bartered with another country that accepts USD as a global currency). What Bangalore is effectively doing is cranking up the machine of global free-trade, and this is good for us (take for example yesterday's mini-budget).
  
  Bangalore is pushing India to world class standards. It's doing something Silicon Valley couldn't do. So why are we moaning about not being in the physical proximity of the market and therefore not capable of being like Silicon Valley?
mayuresh — Jan 10, 2004 8:59:07 AM — # ↩

Interesting articles...

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