On Monday 18 January 2010 12:00:39 Vickram Crishna wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > > > The democracies all around the world claim that they are 'of the > > people, for the people, by the people'. Still they have not > > practiced 'Public Domain Software' in public work as part of > > national IT policy. > > > > Why should we not raise this issue in the global forums of > > democratic nations as part of human(public) right in order to > > institutionalize FOSS as default software practice > > To the best of my knowledge, this is exactly the approach, in WSIS, > in IGF, etc. It should also be raised in the Commonwealth, and in > SAARC, and other such regional fora, where India needs to lead by > example rather than by talk or bullying, ie, we should walk the > talk. > > > at least in government public > > services including all education? > > Perhaps we need to also evolve ourselves up and out of the approach > that government contributes to education. While the Right to > education is implicit in a democracy, I do not agree that > government is the best entity to provide it - and definitely not a > one-size-fits-all centralised government. But that part of the > discussion is probably best left to another forum.
I think what the op meant was content created for education and paid by the govt. Infact we should not be restricting ourselves merely to software or content. What about research? -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
