2009/3/21 Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> > > > I do not give a rf for foss philosophy. State A uses public money and > spends 5 > crores developing an application to computerise land records. It runs on > linux > and uses free software tools. State A keeps the software proprietary. State > B, > instead of downloading state A's stuff and spending 50 lakh to customise > it, > spends another 5 crores. Given that there are around 30 states, calculate.
2 ways of looking at it. 1) These 5 crores go to software developers like me and my friends, and then we pay tax out of that same money. 2) Inter-state-govt collaboration sucks. I think the main reasons why govts do not release code are 1) They dont even know what releasing code is 2) they are not 100% confident of the securtiy implications anyways. There is a disconnect between the tech-guy who does understand all this and is with the govt (Someone like you Kenneth) and the people who make these decisions (like a minster). I > dont give another rf about the tools. If a State developed an application > in > .net running on doze and released the code, I would be happy. > > > I have interacted with the said minister - he hasn't understood a thing > about > foss. Maybe what you mean is that he does not understand it as well as you do. If you really mean what you say then may be he was in a bad mood or something.. i dunno. > > > > Also, there are similarities between FOSS ideeology and communist > ideology > > and thank god for that. > > what similarities are there? I cannot see a single one Well the communists seem to think that there are similarities and maybe they are wrong at that. >From my understanding (and I am no communist fan so i dont know for sure) the 2 topics the minster spoke about freeing ourselves from 1) Monopoly of MS 2) Vendor Lock are good and liberating ideals. I guess communists dont like thses 2 things and i dont know if they are mentioned in the "Communist Manifesto" or not but real world communist supporters do seem to dislike these things. Basically a govt which does not look west ward for every damn purchase is good for FOSS in the long run IMO. > > > > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Associate > NRC-FOSS > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- Be Intelligent, Use GNU/Linux http://debayanin.googlepages.com/ http://debayan.wordpress.com http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
