Hello,
> > No, my main point was that the poor quality reflects on the > lackadaisical approach of TDIL, CDAC, and Government of India > organizations. By no stretch of the imagination was this a free > (in the sense of libre) CD, nor was it promoted as such. No licensing > terms were described, and, in fact they are probably in violation of > the Mozilla licence for a failure to contribute back their > localization work. Many free/open source people have undoubtedly made > significant contributions to the OpenOffice and the Mozilla stuff on > the CD, and I do not wish to denigrate their work. However, I would > bet dollars to doughnuts that these releases make no significant > impact on native-language or open-source computing in India. > People like Gora Mohanty have set such a high standards for themselves that anything done at a lesser magnitude fails to please them. Anyway what was done was not something small. These launches have contributed a lot in way of creating some major policy changes. For first time people in India have looked at Non-English computing as a possiblity. People have become aware of the amount of localisation work happening in India. More and more development teams are getting interested. There is a new sense of pride in working on localization. Government is issuing policies which direct OEMs to bundle local language softwares in their products. HCL has come up with a low-cost PC (<Rs 10000) which is Linux driven. All these are not stories but plain facts. Gora in his criticism has commented about Mozilla violation without checking on the facts. I request him to see the following issue that was filed much before the release. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293850 If the CDs dont make impact why should "Linux For You" carry it as a supplementary in its July issue? Well I agree some fonts were not free but that does not mean they are not accessible. They are always available for download. We had to take the interests of the contributers into account while packaging the CD. On the whole, we need people like Gora to comment on it so that we can avoid or try to avoid some mistakes in the future releases. Best Regards -Raman ----------------------------------------------- RKVS Raman Ph. 91-80-28523300 ext 2512 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ncb.ernet.in/~raman ------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
