So,
What can we do for this issue?
On 10/15/11, Praveen A <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as
> they follow the rules: laws and constitution.
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