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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Parin Sharma <[email protected]>wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> Are we getting into the era of software colonization? A response is
>> necessary. Do you really think a 'DHARNA'/'MARCHING' will do the
>> trick? We are IT people. Can't we find some more appropriate way of
>> our counter-attack? Non-FOSS is a fork among ourselves. Its upon us to
>> resolve this. FSF and OSI of India may be working on some action plan.
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>> Being IT people we can do things like:
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> 1. Create a Facebook page against Proprietary S/w in academia or in general
> and there we can discuss these issues and tell people related to education
> about this spread more awareness and stuff, and then promote this page by
> liking it.
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> 2. Create a promotion on Orkut again telling/linking to various resources
> like http://windows7sins.org, it is a very nice way to advertise things
> because.
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> this will help create awareness among people but what about our government
> we can file RTI + dharna is the only option this is the traditional way our
> govt. listens to its people if it ever does.
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> PS: Not so recently, a SAP guy came to my college and told us that NTPC has
> invested over 700 crores in SAP ERP and after that Indian Railways is also
> on the same track and I just don't know how much they going to spend for
> Railways project which is a really huge network just see how they are
> wasting tax payers money, our money!
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