Hello Friends For the last 24 hours or so i am connecting to Net through Dataone. It is working fine. But, the problem is, the site that i connect for all the technical things with Dataone, like Usage Info and Password and all, the Dataone site http://10.240.43.216 is a site that does not work with anything other than the MSW browser IE, and an MSW environment. So, as a floss user i cannot access it. I have to take resort to some proprietary and priced software, let alone its quality. So, in a way, a National Public Enterprise like BSNL is making me purchase some private piece of SW.
See, i am not at all well versed with the legal aspects, but a lot of you are quite smart guys from corporate backgrounds. So, i just want to know, is it an issue on which someone can go to the courts of law to seek intervention that the basic human rights as proclaimed by the Constitution is getting violated here? And is there any organization or individual that has sued any Government Agency on an issue like this? The irritation is persisting in me from some time back when i was a bit involved in teaching IT in my college. It lacked teachers and so summoned me to get involved in it, though my subject is economics. And what i discovered was more than disgusting. The university curriculum directly mentions things like MS-DOS, MS-Word and all, all brand-names. Can an university, a public body for education, do it at all without violating human rights? And, do you know anyone or any organization figthing legally on an issue like this? Or, am i doing some gross error somewhere, overlooking some very simple point? Otherwise, wont there be many lawsuits over these? Waiting for your opinion. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
