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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 17:54, Rony <[email protected]> wrote:
> vinay sreenivasa wrote:
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>> However, while we do not stress on the cost angle, we cannot ignore it
>> either.
>> For eg.when governments can use Open Office and save lakhs of rupees on
>> license
>> fee for MS office, they should be going for Open Office and should not
>> spend p
>> ublic money on proprietary software.
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> Even if Open Office or other FOSS packages are free as in beer, please
> take into account the cost of installation, training and annual support
> for thousands of PCs in located diverse areas.
Hi all,
I support Rony's views. There are few challenges for a good
implementation specifically with the scale that Vinay you are looking
at.
Any implementation is bound to have X.org, Openoffice.org, GNOME at
the very basic level (apart from one or few educational softwares)
Alongwith the above also have to make a choice of distribution to help
maintain.
apart from system-admin issues of working with diverse range of
hardware and networking infrastructure you would also have to have
developers and techies report, patch and help maintain some packages
at least at the distribution level.
While some of it could be outsourced, but some resources would need to
be in-house.
One of the other issues which I see outright is documentation. Unlike
other software development ideologies which give a change once 4-5
years the changes are fast and furious,
Examples galore from the shift to pulseaudio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulseaudio to something simplest such as
the change to the recent change of gnome-volume-control or
gnome-media. http://live.gnome.org/media-applet
The change may be for the better to worse but knowing, understanding
and communicating to your users would also be interesting.
It is all fascinating and interesting but yes, one would have to
invest in these kind of resources.
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