Durgaprasad Vemula — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:03:53 GMT

Interesting article, it could have been even better if your paper had discussed the “Common Industry Format (CIF)” which is now codified as a both a ISO & ANSI standard as is broadly accepted as way for buyers of software & software services to make more informed buying decisions based on the usability of the product.

From my perspective making some of these standards as a mandatory part of the buying/ tendering/ technical evaluation process would ensure universal usability.

Durgaprasad Vemula — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:21:24 GMT

Multi-lingualism in India could be the reason why people don’t care what others think, when they talk on the phone. At a broader level it could be because of the level of tolerance we have as a culture that we put up with this or as Hofstede says India as a culture tends to be far less individualistic than say the Americans. Maybe that explains why people don’t care who is overhearing our conversations.

Talking about privacy, I recall those long train journeys where you start the journey as strangers and end it knowing a whole lot about the people sitting around you.

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