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. :-) > > It is great if that's the case but it looks bad to me when still many eGov. sites ask for IE and some make it mandatory, AFAIK it is on the NIC's guidelines they work and if NIC isn't able to implement that thing then that's bad and I know shift is coming but NASSCOM is certainly a corrupt organisation for me. Anyways thanks for you insight as you have worked there so you're the best person to tell what's happening inside but the positives should come out to top most level i.e. to the sites/services we directly interact with. -- Parin Sharma http://twitter.com/FOSSmaniac Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
