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Jobs would be available through the local employment exchange (or the payment of bribe which would be accepted at the pan shop across the road of the head office). Computers at these ventures would be built only by the respective state owned computer hardware assembly units to a one time specification that was received in 1979 and it would be the government mandate that all computers be of this and no other specification.

What if liberalization had never come to Indian shores although IT would have? Neelkantan imagines a scenario if local governments had controlled the software business.