On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Anivar Aravind <[email protected]> wrote:
> This Term is Creating Too Much Confusion. Recently some of us received > a call from Kerala Chief Ministers office mentioning about a > suggestion from an NGO based in > Blore to change term Free and Open Source Software in the policy > document of Govt of Kerala to Public Software. > > Though it is good that they are trying to promote free software in > government. To me their strategy looks to be an effort to remove > freedom from the discussion. It seems to be projecting new name to > enter into public projects. In places where policy clearly mandates > FOSS , These terms are bringing more ambiguity to policy > > Public software does not have a Proper Definition. and it is still one > NGO agenda to push their term in Policy. I Think Fosscom need to > discuss this issue and need to have a position on how to address these > issues . I recall Guru posting to this list. I've explicitly copied him as well. Perhaps we'd like to hear from him about this as well. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
