On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Manilal K M <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 June 2010 15:32, Hiran Venugopalan <[email protected]> wrote: >> The news is VERY wage. I can't find any notes or news related to >> Central govt fund. >> >> What makes me irritated is the usage "FOSS is unproductive". Either >> they are confused. Or they dont know anything. > > Both. It is true that our esteemed journalists in mainstream media > doesn't know anything when it comes to technology. Remember, sometimes > ago one of them have reported that Kerala Government website is > running only on MySQL. We cannot demand that everyone should be > knowledgeable about IT. But at least they should have asked their > friends before posting such stupid "facts". Their only objective is to > sensationalise the news, but in this case I think it's about defacing > the government and they need some reason. There may be other vested > interests too, especially when the central government wants to > separate power production/supply from direct government control. > > In any case, we should publish an open letter and try to bring media's > attention to this issue, so that they won't repeat the same stupidity. >
Yes. The target of this news seems to be bringing this issue in front of tomorrows cabinet meeting and pressurise government to take a stand against Free Software implementation in KSEB. We need to Voice strongly against it . We dont have much time left . We need to issue a Open letter ASAP Anivar -- "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
