IMHO goverment should take initative to support the FOSS, the half of the money to be spend on the MS thing is enough for this purpose. And it should be the duty of FOSS people to draw the attention of TN govt higlighting the merits. However if govt takes the MS stance we can only be spectators.
What i see lagging in india is proper marketing of FOSS solution ie even via paid adds. I have never seen a single add on TV atleast from.govt side promoting FOSS. Well atleast in Doordarshan :-/. To conclude, my suggestion, what we need is a strategy to promote FOSS, the impact should that all software should be called FOSS instead of software, like what we have seen in the case of Fridge? However, we have to admit the facts that R&D can only take place in prop.. companies with proper funding unless or otherwise the is a well wishing community with more grey matter. IMO, we need both, and free software should be considered different softaware echo system and propri... another, unless there is a competiton among the rivals we cant see development. See the case of GIMP- now it has a certain benchmark to attain because of photoshop.
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