Dear FOSS & ILUG people, It is time that you people got involved in the issues regarding which I have made complaints to my office and fighting alone.
The first is regarding buying overpriced computers with windows operating system (OS only) and installing pirated copies of MSOffice in those computers for nearly 90 computers. The next is regarding replacing the GNU-Linux system bought by my office with pirated windows OS and pirated MSOffice. The third is regarding inoperable website www.kolkata-servicetax.gov.in I had talked to Mr.A.Mani and Mr.P.Verma, way back in the first week of September 2009, requesting them to hold a free seminar-cum-training program for my office people so that we could begin converting people from proprietory to FOSS system, and gradually convert the pirated systems to FOSS systems.They had agreed to it. I had informed the office, especially the Commissioner, about the FOSS peoples' interest in conducting a free seminar-cum-tutorial sessions. But after so many months I find that my office is actually intent on killing every investigation on the anomalies. The Linux systems are lying unused in some places, because people have a no notion about linux and FOSS, and my office is intent on changing the OS for obvious reasons. Please file enquiries using the Right to Information to know: 1.What type of machines the Service Tax Commissionerate is using? 2.If the office is using Windows OS then which office package the office is using? 3.If the office is using MSOffice, whether they are licensed (one license per machine)? 4.If they are licensed, to provide a photocopy of the license cum invoice. 5.If the office is using OpenOffice.org instead of MSOffice, whether it is worthwhile to use FOSS like openoffice with proprietory high- priced computers? 6.Demand copies of the complaints submitted by me from the office and ask what actions the office has taken on the complaints? 7.Has the commissioner taken cognizance of the free training program, and what steps has he taken to reduce government expenditure? 8.Knowing that my office uses office package only rudimentarily, and when it is easy to implement low-priced, efficient systems, why is the office spending so much money to buy high priced proprietory systems? If you people need copies of the complaints, let me know. I will send the required pdf files to the user group. Office secrets act won't stop me, because welfare of public is involved. I have informed some extra-departmental investigating agencies, and they are working on the complaints. Kindly enforce speedy justice for the public. If you can get the issue highlighted in the newspaper it will be a national issue, because so far as I know, nearly all the commissionerates (Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax, totalling about a hundred) all over India are following the same practice. Regards, Rajib Bandopadhyay
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