I am posting this from my mobile, hence have on idea weather top posted or bottom posted. Kindly bear.
If you could take a look at the first thread started on this regard, you could clearly see my views. I said this would just be a technical win with no actual benefits. If you have gone through the draft you could clearly see the explicit mention of "windows strater". I would request everyone to go to the Wikipedia page on Windows 7 and see the support of the starter pack. You will come to know that one can neither become a "photoshop ninja" nor a "autocad mastero" with it. It doesn't even support dual core. So what you will end up getting is a supported hardware that is either outdated or that lacks juice. If they have floated the tender for "home premium" or "professional" edition I would have never helped draft this letter. I greatly welcome KG sir's way of drafting. But one reason i didn't explicitly mention our role is "I am not sure how it would work out". Wouldn't it look like we are after a share of that 91.2 crores that we say we are saving. Are we going to say we would pay unpaid support? Whats the offer here. If the community could come to a consensus then I would be glad to change the draft the way it needs to be. And for the 'daunting thing', we are talking about school kids here not college students alone. I have personally known students who think a 30k laptop is 'duplicate' because someone has shown him a 50k one. Try explaining windows file structure and linux file structure to him. And at last to KG sir: Sir, please tell me why it shouldn't be bearing the community name? Is what we are doing degrading the community in any way. On 6/25/11, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> But there has been no consensus. I do not believe in press statements >> and petitions, but if I did draft one, it would be like this: >> >> "We welcome the far-sighted initiative of the government in including >> Linux in the specifications for the free laptop scheme and we assure the >> government that we will do our best to extend technical support for >> students using linux. We however request the government to ensure that >> the linux installed is a fully fledged installation which works well >> with all the peripherals - and not some token installation. We are >> willing to provide expert help in choosing and installing this." >> >> > +1 > Perfect! > > regards, > Arun > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- Regards P.Arunmozhi Twitter: @tecoholic Website: http://arunmozhi.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
