Hello all ,
I think it was waste of opportunity. Using FOSS software would have helped
the domestic software Industry for sure.
Here comes the million dollar question.
Does India have a vibrant OSS community who can support a state like Tamil Nadu
?
As far as I have seen , bulk of the OSS people are interested only in
Stallmanism
and most of them are not technical at all.
regards
Praseed Pai
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From: Praveen A <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 3:20 PM
Subject: [ILUG-Cochin.org] The Deadly Microsoft Embrace
The Tamil Nadu government is adding costly MS software to laptops
meant for poor students. It could cost Rs 10,200 Crore and hamper
student growth
Sai Manish
New Delhi
"Diplomatic observers point out to the stopover of US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton in Chennai on July 20-21 when she met
Jayalalithaa before flying out to Indonesia on a state visit."
[...]
"Two cables, one originating in the embassy at Hanoi and the other at
the embassy in Tunis, throw enough light on the scale and nature of
the government-corporation nexus in the United States and its
influence on world governments.
According to one of the cables, the US government ‘intervened’ to
force Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung to sign an agreement
with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that would require Hanoi to pay
Microsoft $20 million for 3 lakh licences. This even though the
Vietnamese PM wanted to hold the Microsoft deal as a deliverable till
he met the US president later that year.
Now put that deal in an Indian context where 68 lakh licences would be
required under Jayalalithaa’s ambitious free laptop scheme and the
business of diplomacy becomes clear. The Microsoft deal of 3 lakh
licences was dubbed in the cable as ‘the most significant agreement
Vietnam has ever signed with a US business’."
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws101011MICROSOFT.asp
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they follow the rules: laws and constitution.
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