On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Vikram Vincent <[email protected]>wrote:

> > sun in India has already produced such docs:
> >
> > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/playing/InitialComments
> >
> > of course, our wonderful foss community has not responded ...
>
> Companies and Govt. sponsored agencies/projects have the
> responsibility of actively convincing various responsible bodies to
> adopt the relevant policies. For example, NRCFOSS {sh,c}ould have
> taken up that responsibility - being a Govt. sponsored project. The
> community has certain responsibility but limited resources unlike Sun,
> Redhat or NRCFOSS
>

No one has unlimited resources, especially in these times. However, more and
more policy makers are becoming aware of open source/free software and we
can speed up the process by writing to policy makers and asking them to make
FOSS a part of the election manifestos.

Venky
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