Hi guys,
Such a stupid waste of money to install the laptops with
propreitary software. Since July 8 is the deadline, the first thing is to
schedule the meeting with the officials as proposed by Shrinivasan. Those
who are in India can do this..
I live abroad. What i did is I created a page on facebook very quickly..
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Say-NO-to-Windows-and-proprietary-software-to-the-TamilNadu-Government/192009807515360
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Say-NO-to-Windows-and-proprietary-software-to-the-TamilNadu-Government/192009807515360>Now
if more users join and write their resentment, we can show this as a solid
evidence to what they are doing is not wise..
Tasks:
1) Add information with proper links on the walls of this page.
2) recruit more users
3) May be a better logo??
Lets get going.. Now come on. I am waiting to see you guys as supporters on
the page..
regards,
*Manikandan.B*
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Hameed <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > Operating System : Preloaded Dual booting - Windows starter edition
> > > > with Anti Virus for
> > > > 1 year license and Linux.
> > >
> > > If the windows costs min 1000 INR,
> > > 9,00,000 * 1,000 = 90,00,00,000
> > >
> > > 90 Cr rupees will be given to Microsoft.
> > >
> > > If we use Gnu/Linux, we can save the 90Cr.
>
> > On 20 June 2011 12:19, Arvind S Raj <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Not to mention the cost of the anti-virus. It definitely wouldn't be free
> > either
>
>
> We need to schedule a meeting asap with
>
> the Chairman of Elcot's IT Department - Dr.Santhosh Babu, IAS (Phone:
> +91-44-65512332)
>
> OR with
>
> Managing Director of Elcot Mr. Atul Anand, IAS (Phone:
> +91-44-42152200, +91-44-65512330)
>
>
> to explain the Government's cost savings with FOSS and how ILUGC could
> help them.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Hameed
>
>
>
> On 20 June 2011 12:19, Arvind S Raj <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > Operating System : Preloaded Dual booting - Windows starter edition
> > > > with Anti Virus for
> > > > 1 year license and Linux.
> > >
> > > If the windows costs min 1000 INR,
> > > 9,00,000 * 1,000 = 90,00,00,000
> > >
> > > 90 Cr rupees will be given to Microsoft.
> > >
> > > If we use Gnu/Linux, we can save the 90Cr.
> >
> >
> > Not to mention the cost of the anti-virus. It definitely wouldn't be free
> > either
> >
> > For school students, school OS would ideal I guess-it's based on Ubuntu
> and
> > comes with a lot of softwares pre-installed.
> >
> > Convincing to use GNU/Linux:
> > 1. Perhaps it could be pointed out that experience with open source would
> > greatly enhance the skill of students, specially college students, and
> > enhance chances of getting a job?
> > 2. Tamil software and educational content all exist in the open source
> > domain No need for additional software(these might be proprietary too).
> > 3. Anti-virus license would have to be renewed after a year-no student
> would
> > do that; instead they would use pirated versions mostly.
> > 4. And of course, the obvious truth-more than 100 Cr would be spent for
> > sure-a colossal waste IMO.
> >
> > This needs some attention-the due date is 8th July as said in page 14.
> Not
> > very far away.
> >
> > --
> > Arvind S Raj
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