I have few tools that I developed and put it in Public domain (GPL v3). I assume, am the only user, since I wrote them to handle my needs. Some day someone might find it useful for them, others may not discover it or find it absurd.
I consider BOSS as one such project sponsored by Government of India under CDAC. While it is a good initiative to migrate government sectors from proprietary to Free Software, creation of a new distro with an identity (national or ethnic or whatever) is not a move that is necessary to achieve the goal. In such cases, going along with already proven distribution that is widely adopted will help to move forward. Specific identity based products will not long last in India, since India has its beauty in it's diversity. To take free software projects to these diverse people, Localization is the key to go. When the most popular Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora distributions have got the localization and customization right, the option of which is available for the user right from the installation step, I don't find the need for a new distribution that sells just that point with identity. I remember, once there was an Web browser called EPIC which is an fork of Firefox. They customized it's theme, language with Indian flag, Indian languages and created an identity as "Indian browser" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/2012/03/epic-browser-the-amazing-indian-browser/. Now when we look at their website, it tells us a different story of what they are upto. https://www.epicbrowser.com/ Why would someone just leave their proven browser (Firefox or Chromium) to use an new clone of the same which does what can be done on the original version itself? I put an similar analogy for Free Software projects here. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Karthikeyan A K <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:35 AM, YOGESHWAR DAN CHARAN < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi there , > > I recently got to know about Indian version of GNU/Linux BOSS developed > > under Indian government . I have few questions in this regard : > > 1. Where does BOSS stands as with other leading linux distros like > Ubuntu , > > Fedora etc ? > > > > Other than in few people dreams its dead. This is another good example of > how my tax money got wasted. > > > > > 2. How BOSS will benefit India and it's people , by having it's own > > operating system? > > I mean , will BOSS provide any specific advantage in any form which were > > not there already from existing distros. > > > > No way I think it will provide advantage. Many distros like Ubuntu have > enough localization, like தமிழ் தட்டச்சு > > > > > 3. What all are the areas where BOSS is being used successfully already? > > > > It had a website which I went through to kill my time for an hour. So it > had some use in indirect way > > > > > Regards, > > Yogeshwar Dan Charan > > UG(Information Technology) > > Netaji Subhas Institute Of Technology,Delhi <http://www.nsit.ac.in/> > > > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > -- Thanks & Regards, Prasanna Venkadesh. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
