On Wednesday 21 September 2005 04:23, dipankar das wrote: > 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. > Opera works fine on FC3,4... Ensure that Java is installed. They have two sites one for IE, one for opera and none for firefox or konqueror or mozilla. ...apparently. I use opera. > 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? BSNL may be a small fry in this, but the issue is worth mass action and lawsuits.
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