On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya < [email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.muktware.com/**bitsnbytes/2983<http://www.muktware.com/bitsnbytes/2983> > > I worked on the story and found oss is only a smoke screen. The entire UID > project seems to be a pure Microsoft stack. > > This document provides step-by-step instructions to install the AADHAAR > Enrolment Client and Biometric components needed for Biometrics capturing. > The document is not intended to be a user manual for the AADHAAR Enrolment > Client. The application has been built to work with the given > pre-requisites. > > 1.1 Installation Pre-requisites > • Operating System: Windows XP SP3 OR Windows 7 (only 32-bit editions) > • Windows Installer 4.5 > • Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 > • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express > • Aadhaar QSS SDK Setup > • Vendor Device Manager > > You can see how the UID project has made Microsoft technologies mandatory. > You can't use it without Microsoft. There is no mention of Linux in this > important document. > > That clearly states that other than the already popular and powerful open > source technologies such as Apache and MySQL rest of the stack is > proprietary. Calling UID/Aadhar and Open Source project is like calling a > Tata tractor a Mercedes just because one of its four tyres is a Mercedes > tyre. Thanks for cracking this story. This is shocking. UIDAI are clearly bluffing. -- Regards, Sachin Divekar -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
