On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Gaurav Paliwal <[email protected] > wrote:
> >> Waiting for your individual opinions. >> >> > If they really want an FOSS based system then, why they want Senior > Manager (Project Management & Monitoring) to be " Proficient in MS Office, > MS Project, PERT-CPM and other Project Management Tools " > > > http://uidai.gov.in/documents/PMU/UID_Senior_Manager(Project_Management_and_Monitoring).pdf > > Let's accept the reality that this group is spearheading a national initiative for the adoption of FOSS within the country (India: we may have members from other countries here(?), but our focus is clear). When we spot such lacunae, rather than express our anger by posing rhetorical questions, it is more productive to work on modifying the pertinent clauses, and feeding this back to the government/tendering agency with quotes from the stated policy in this regard. As we have seen, such steps have taken shape in the sphere of education: it is a good and sensible model for other areas. And btw PERT-CPM/Project Management is not the sole prerogative of M$. > Govt. has never open sourced the code of EVM then how can we expect them to > release UID under it ??? > Also have a look at the header of every pdf which says "Microsoft Word > *.doc" :P > OK, so the EC is a worthy target too. But EC is not UIDAI. An earlier exchange of posts on the subject of UID seemed to be quite clear that we feel that this project is a monstrous invasion of civil rights in the country. Do we now focus on fixing the anti-FOSS sections of this project? Will the wolf be more welcome once it is clothed in lamb's wool? -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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