On Saturday 21 Mar 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Saturday 21 March 2009 18:09:50 Debayan Banerjee wrote: > > Basically a govt which does not look west ward for every damn > > purchase is good for FOSS in the long run IMO. > > I will reply to the other points in your mail when I cool down a bit, > but have you realised how much of FOSS is developed in the west? Do > you not realise that if the govt adopts foss, they are dependant on > westerners who have developed it?
The whole point of FOSS is that the source code is available, and anyone with the requisite skills, regardless of location, colour, caste, creed, religion or gender can modify, enhance, customise and localise it. The difference between, say, Oracle and MySQL is that only Oracle can modify their database, whereas anyone can modify MySQL. </FOSS-101> Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
