On Friday 02 July 2010 11:57:05 Debayan Banerjee wrote: > On 2 July 2010 10:29, Vickram Crishna <[email protected]> wrote: > > Surely as persons interested in FOSS (our common interest) we are > > people who question and do not accept blindly anyone else's > > assertions? > > Are you indirectly implying that as persons interested FOSS we > should oppose UID? I do not understand this line of thought. > In any case I dont think this is the proper place to discuss the > validity of UID as a project. We could rather discuss the possible > use of FOSS. > I am a FOSS lover/supporter but I do not find the UID project as > senseless as you do. I have probably not studied it at the depth > that you people have, and I will make sure I do in the days to > come. It is my personal philosophy to be supportive of a cause > until I find reasons that change my mind. As JTD suggested, I will > research it more and maybe I will change my opinion in the future. > Lets see.
I suppose studying in detail before accepting or rejecting is most essential, particularly wrt limitations - A practice which seems to be totally lacking in the UIDAI. Also with such crazy implementations, FLOSS will wind up as the whipping horse. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
