Hello, On 22-Mar-09, at 1:39, "Dinesh A. Joshi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Debayan Banerjee wrote: >> And that can change if we get a non-west-looking proprietary-hating >> government. Somewhat like what happens in Russia and China? >> > > Please dont consider China or Russia as role models. They only used > FOSS > / Linux to hold Microsoft at ransom. It was a mere ploy to get > Microsoft > to reduce its pricing in their country and especially for the Chinese > government. Russia too is heading the same way. I don't think this is true, coz microsoft hasn't reduced price for the janta there in Russia or china. They always have given preferential pricing model with govt customers and in some cases here in India they have sold their windows license almost at near to free of cost models. While made their profits from selling something else in the same deal. We all can just talk and/or rant about software that govt uses to manage its governance, when it comes to execution and getting the real things done at govt perspective the tender system generally srlect the CHEAPEST ONE on the bid and this is where proprietory product companies are working and taking advantage. So having manifest is good but real execution lies in modifying the TENDER rules and regulation and matrix of identifying and rewarding/ punishing/banning, execellent / nasty / defaulted services vendor. Without solving the above point we can still have no fundamental desired results, Regards, Mitul Limbani, Founder & CEO, Enterux Solutions Pvt. Ltd., The Enterprise Linux Company (r), http://www.enterux.com/ http://www.entVoice.com/training/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
