2011/10/15 Althaf <[email protected]>: > 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
Like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RPQPz5M3Q8 ? > 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. There are companies with proper funding doing R & D in Free Software. Red Hat, IBM, Suse etc > 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. We have competition inside Free Software itself, see gnome and kde for example. > See the case of GIMP- now it has a certain benchmark to attain because of > photoshop. It is just that gimp was late into the game and we couldn't match the resources adobe has at its disposal. But even with that gimp has come a long way closer to photoshop. -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
