On Monday 08 Oct 2007 20:51:04 Rony wrote: > G Karunakar wrote: > > when Dr Kalam was there there was his team which managed the site, > > after he moved out, he migrated it to www.abdulkalam.com along with > > all his speeches during his tenure, but later leaving few presidential > > addreses, most are now missing (must be that RB or GOI decided that > > all his speeches as president may not be outside in public domain!).. > > meanwhile management of the website has fallen back upon NIC, which > > is using its old setup (of Windows/IIS) .. much of the site being > > similar to what it was before Dr Kalam got it changed, with just > > little cosmetic changes! After new president was sworn in, the site > > was down for couple of weeks, with throwing up 404's or no content. > > With due respect, he should have made the NIC guys switch to FOSS > instead of getting it done by his team. This is what clients can fear > about foss. After the foss guy is gone, who will maintain his systems? > 'Teach a man how to fish.....'
Eh. Typical! I'm beginning to think that this whole FOSS thingie is becoming as bullish as Microsoft or <insert your most hated proprietary software vendor here>. Dr. Kalam did what was in his power. Forcing NIC to change to FOSS would be abusing the power, because you see, the NIC people might not agree with his point of view that FOSS is better. Or maybe, they just don't have the man-power or the expertise to run the damn things on FOSS. You know, get out of the damn shell for once. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------
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