(Cross-posts trimmed.)

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Gaurav  Paliwal
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I've been to the UID registration camp in my area. There is no involvement
>> of linux/open source software. The data entry module was made in .NET and
>> was working on an HCL laptop with Windows. The backend, AFAIK, is running
>> on windows servers with MS SQL Server. It is truly sad.
>>
>
> As far as I know for actual deployment http://cassandra.apache.org/ will be
> used as database, infact if I am not wrong they are experimenting over it
> for quite a long.

[Citation needed] Colour me cynical, but myself Glora: Pease to be providing
the same. Without buzzword-driven compliance, Cassandra would quite
likely not be my immediate choice for such a project.

It could well be that I am just plain ignorant, so it would be wonderful
if anyone could point out publicly-available UID white-papers describing
the rationale behind technology choices; whether open source, or not.

IMHO, the use of open source, or the lack thereof,  is a smaller
problem here: The lack of even a sham at protecting individual privacy
is a definite problem.

Personally, as far as I am concerned, it cannot be soon enough that
the IUD^W UID money-grab comes to an end. Too bad that it seems
like that public money has already been spent on this cynical (from the
side of the proponents) boondoggle. I suppose that this is peanuts
compared to the standard scams that the Indian public seems to
have gotten used to, but nevertheless.

Regards,
Gora

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