On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:15 AM, TechnoBrat <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Oct 7, 7:30 pm, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > We can never expect Indian Government for adopting a FOSSILOSOPHY from > > the top. With a number of examples, I have no hope. FOSS will always a > > thing between you and me. The cooperative milk. Its AMUL. > > > > Mohit Singh > > Parin, Mohit: I prefer do differ on your point of view for NIC and > other government agencies that they are not for FOSS & are only > wasting tax-payers money by using M$ and other closed stuffs. I myself > work with NIC at the HQ, Delhi and trust me, we have got 60% of the > application and infrastructures being developed and implemented on > FOSS solutions. The rest are either being migrated to FOSS environment > or are phased out. And even the Gov. of India has issued a > notification for using FOSS platform and technologies for maximum > places until unless its not necessary. Regarding the people who you > listened while the conference, I'm sure they know about FOSS but are > just not aware enough coz they ain't into development & > implementation. Believe me guys the government people are as much > aware of FOSS and Open Source as we are and the real people who work > behind the scene are very much interested to learn and implement FOSS > & Open Source. Even AMUL itself is considered the best of all. :-) > > CHEERS > -- > Saras Tripathi aka TechnoBrat > IRC: [email protected] > Twitter: @brattechno > > Thanks Saras for sharing this info. We hope for the best. Do NIC or your dept has any scope for supporting SchoolOS[1] or other e-learning initiative in FOSS world? [1]http://schoolos.org Thanks -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
