On Monday 23 Mar 2009, Rony wrote: > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On Sunday 22 March 2009 17:58:55 Raj Mathur wrote: > >> context of KG's statement ``if the govt adopts foss, they are > >> dependant on westerners who have developed it?'', which is > >> patently incorrect > > > > this is not a statemnt, it is a sarcastic comment on the idiocy > > of classifying software on the basis of country of origin > > It does make a difference if the software is closed and in control > of outsiders. > Openness of a software removes these boundaries. > Tomorrow if there is an international political crisis, the country > of origin of the closed software can force the company to stop > dealing with an individual Nation/s.
That goes for any closed software, even indigenous ones. Reason - toolchains. Infact every element in the system will have to be indigenous. Something impossible in today's electronic systems. The more the number of closed components the worse it will get. > FOSS is a free open pool. We > don't really know what information goes out of a system running > closed software when it connects to the suppliers' websites for > updates. Just one of many such important points. Like the PMO office mail system infected with some virus or the other for a full 3 months. Mails from the Services did not reach the PM. Maybe they reached Gilani. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
