On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Anivar Aravind <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > -- > > Krittika Vishwanath > > www.itforchange.net > > Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities > > Tel:9535321980 > > What is Public Software? see http://public-software-centre.org/node/31 > > 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. > > 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 . > > We should be avoiding creating more and more terms to say what all we mean about free software on official records And regarding ITFC , using this word public wherever they want to say as free software should be avoided, as my observation and also some of the participants asked me after guru's introduction to free software session . though i wanted to interfere while guru was addressing around 40 master trainers which was part of the training program that recently held , he repeatedly kept on using the term public software and kannada equivalent as sarvajanika software and when another person on dias was using the term open source who was also aware of Free still was using the term open source again while summarizing it was told that open source and Sarvajanika software or public software are one and the same . though i wanted to interrupt, since it was a moment things were going on smoothly i did not do so and next could not get chance / time my honest and sincere appeal to ITFC is to not to confuse newbie using new terms which are not clearly defined lets use any term to explain the freedom aspect in the free software, but not like places where it would create confusions at sensitive places Anivar > > > > > -- > "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and > 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from > other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in >
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