2010/10/31 jtd <[email protected]>: > Hmm poor understanding of English semantics (amongst other things). > The word Windows software with a capital W in the middle of a > sentence means it is name of a specific thing. There is only ONE os > product family by that name Microsoft Windows. If he were referring > to a windowing system, he would state "window" - no "W" at the start > no "s" in the end. So your excuse - or logic - either way fails.
Are you seriously suggesting that when Dr. Saraswat "told reporters on the sidelines of a function", he actually said, "Windows software - that's with a capital W, and an s at the end" - and it is not the reporter doing the capitalization etc. himself? Really! Personally, I don't believe DRDO will do something as foolhardy as develop this "OS" based on Microsoft Windows. They have a track record of using Linux, and most likely that's what they'll do in this case too. >> > That is what the PR is supposed to tell us - what organisations >> > are thinking and planning to do. Throw crappy PR up and it all >> > comes raining down. >> >> Quite. GoI's multiple PR snafus are all there to be seen. > > Not quite in this case. YOUR link seems to have got things rubbished. > The TOI link is quite ok technically. The TOI link was a report from Russia. Doesn't redeem GoI in any way. > many academicians and FOSS proponents. Mere APIs are sufficient in > any world including one as warped up as M$ and indeed, every software > development continues happily without any source from M$ Well, I did post a link in which Microsoft offers access to its source code to developers. I'd imagine many non-trivial software makers would be taking advantage of this offer too (Symantec and other AV software makers immediately come to mind, plus a friend of mine in HP did have access to Microsoft source code). Binand -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
