Hello Gora,
Gora Mohanty wrote:
OpenOffice on the CDs might work, but the CDs themselves are largely
a publicity gimmick, and pretty worthless in my opinion.
They do however contribute strongly to create awareness and "buzz" which
is very important for Free Software. If it was so worthless, how come
the people handing out the CDs in Chennai witnessed a riot from people
who were eager to get them?
Half of the
stuff in it does not install properly, some of the fonts overwrite
system fonts in Windows and do not uninstall properly. There is no
clear licensing policy for the software, and the TDIL (Technology
Development in Indian Languages: a division of the Ministry of IT
of the Government of India) people do not seem to have a clear
roadmap of what they are doing, nor do they show any particular
inclination to support FLOSS. There was a rather scathing review of
the Hindi CD in a Hindi newspaper local to Delhi. It is a crying
shame really, as at least the fonts from the CDs would have been
useful if released under an open-source licence, or even into the
public domain. Don't let the hype carry you away.
Thanks for your point, Gora. What you're saying basically is that these
CDs end up harming more the cause of Free Software than serving it
because of quality problems (esp. concerning the fonts)?
Raman, Rajesh, what is your answer to that?
Best Regards,
Charles.
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