Milind, Thanks for your reply. There are 2 issues here:
Promotion of FOSS: 1. For this what would be a great motivation is if we are able to find the total amount of money spent on licensing. Maybe more RTIs? I think we can form a group to find this out. 2. Building a site like http://www.savetheinternet.in/ <http://www.savetheinternet.in/> that lists all the alternatives etc. 3. Creating awareness on social media. I understand most of the activism on FOSS was pre-social-media and I may be naive, but its worth a try. Promotion of BOSS: You forgot the most important question in your FAQ. Why BOSS? Why is BOSS better than any standard Linux distribution? Taking an FOSS project and white-labeling it with your logo is hardly something we should be proud of. Sorry to be a BOSS-spectic, but would be happy to learn more. best, Rushabh > On 27-Dec-2015, at 11:35 PM, Milind Oka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Rushabh and Dsouza for your kind and encouraging words. > > I think every Indian can participate in this activity. The least thing that > everyone can do is to make awareness of foss and boss. > Write some articles, blogs, emails and send to your freinds. Let them know > boss and foss > > You know it is Indianized version of linux and also not perfect. It may be > inferior to many other linux flavors. But most of the Indians who are only > using computers for their basic needs, it is more than sufficient. So you can > safely recommend them. They really enjoy the logo bharat on desktop. > > Making it perfect is not a difficult task at all. But we know government will > not do it unless we pressurize them. > > Here is a brief description of my humble efforts, apart from PIL. You are > always welcome to share your knowledge and efforts with us. > -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
