On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 13:26 +0530, Anoop Jacob Thomas wrote: > It is too anti-foss. And is the media taking bribe for such a thing?
There could be several things behind this story. There could be some proprietary software guy behind it, and the newspaper must have found this another stick to beat the government with. There may also be some disgruntled company that did not get the order. Not only the media, but also our bureaucracy is largely unaware of the technology or its philosophy. So there is nothing surprising about such a story. The question is, what can we do about the story. The problem is that we are unaware of the details. But we could write a letter to the editor saying that the technology should not be such a big issue in this case, and, in any case, it should be possible to do using Free Software tools. We should also tell them that Free Software not only saves money now, but also later when we need to modify the software. In fact, if it had been done with Free Software for one state, and the source code was available, it could have been modified for other states at a very low cost. Best Sasi -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
