Shridhar Daithankar rearranged electrons thusly:
> I don't think government in india will have that much strong spine to do
> anything of that sort. It's too much contaminated.
Considering that Sushma Swaraj wants to "regulate the internet" (forming a
body rather similar to the press council) I wouldnt be surprised if she tries
this. Of course, she'll have to have enough technical clue to even think of
it, and the half baked clues provided by the late Dewang Mehta are not at
hand.
> See being a politician easily clutters the view. He has money to pay microsoft
> licenses but no money to provide open source development moulded to rural needs.
> Linux as it is is useless to rural india. It has to be seriously transformed to
> suit this soil.
To "Babu Garu", Bill Gates (and Larry Ellison and ... blah ...) have star
value. He collects "IT czars" like I collect books, and others collect
stamps. I suppose if linus comes over, he'll be only too glad to announce a
grand AP government scheme re linux.
Close behind (or sometimes, not far ahead) is the Karnataka CM, SM Krishna.
> Frankly rural india is lithargic and fobic to technology. I know. I know how
> much I get from my village farms....;-)
Same case with most of the MPs, who were given high-end laptops and either
sold 'em / gave them to their relatives etc etc rather than using them.
> Another sore point of urban civil life...
we'll take this offlist - its becoming indian-conditions-bashing instead of
linux-india-help :)
-s
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
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