I have an opinion, humble or otherwise! BOSS is not worth the effort. Very lackadaisical attitude to support. A lot of commercial considerations. Started in hayday of Maran, with HQ in his town Chennai . Indian langauge enablements have been poor, support for hardware lags behind and is meant only to shamelessly give a chauvinistic tinge to what is otherwise a global effort.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Rushabh Mehta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- jitendra -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
