On 08.04.2013 19:06, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Ganesha Computes > <[email protected]> wrote: >> While creating a national Linux distribution is an expensive and complex >> task, IMHO the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. >> It's hard, not impossible! > > Creating a distribution/spin/derivative is remarkably easy. If you > conclude as you did, then I have totally failed in my explanation. I'd > like to understand more as to why you think creating a distribution is > imperative when contrasted to creating policies, frameworks and, being > able to provide incentive for adoption of those.
+1 - exactly, because it is not expensive and because it is easy and smart to fork from existing work - Open Source is the first choice! Do not invent the wheel twice! Of course besides all the other aspects like transparency, freedom and security. As example, i maintain the OSSTMM Lab as a Fork from the Fedora Security Lab completely alone and the Fedora Security Lab as a official Fedora Spin is maintained by Fabian Affolter and me - in part-time work, also not much efforts - right? [1] I am moving and watching around in indias non-profit and open source eco-system since a while, i see that there is a trend in missing the benefits of Free and Open Standards and Open Source Software by blowing up the projects with big tamtam, management-overhead, building board of directors (who just do nothing, not even the lobbying the are hired for ;)) and by building huge marketing around it, before the product itself is near a state to become attributable etc. etc. In the Open Source Security Eco System in Europe there are even scammer-warnings about some india non-profits who make nice marketing-face to just wash their black-money or to receive fundings from the government and from entities outside of India. In no way i imply this is your intention!!! But ganeshacomputes, if you really want to bring your idea to fly, build a prototype, show it to the people, teach them, have some success stories. And if it is really good - your sponsor will show up! peace and long life Joerg [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-tk7EE_C3w -- Joerg (kital) Simon [email protected] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon http://kitall.blogspot.com Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688
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