Hello,
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Praveen A wrote:
> The website of this chennai programme changed the name of Newly
> launching organisation as "Free Software Forum, Tamil Nadu"
>
> Anyway it is good that they changed the name. But Still a lot of
> questions remains
> "The objective of the event will be the launch of the project for the
> development of a Tamil Version of the GNU/ Linux operating system.
Q1: Why have they not invited or even informed many who have done a
lot of the work for localisation of GNU/Linux to Tamil?
> My question is what is so special about this custom distribution? .
I don't think custom distributions or even new distributions are wrong
per-se. Creating a re-branded localised distributions _can_ help to
promote FOSS ideas _and_ give local people a resource to reach out to
when they need help.
However, it is important to realise that creating a new distribution
means more than creating a CD --- the creators should be giving it
long-term support. This should not be the "foundation stone" phenomena
in the virtual world :-(.
On a separate note I am surprised to see The Hindu involved in the
promotion of Free Software. Their "Special Correspondent" on computers
and communication is Anand Parthasarathy is a major FUD spreader whose
connection to ICE is via "oh-so-cool-gizmos".
Regards,
Kapil.
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