On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Krishnakant Mane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Narendra. > There is a 4th reason which I personally know since I happen to deal with a > lot of government officials these days. > Many university heads or government office technical heads know about GNU > very well. > But they have the FUD factor. > Do we have an eco system to support FOSS? > how many use Support service from Microsoft ? Infact Windows create more problem then Linux. most of the problems in LUG forum show that some hardware do not support Linux. Otherwise I do not think support is a very big issue. we need need admin person and local vendor who can install GNU/Linux. > If some thing goes wrong who is accountable? > And We think this is all so non standard. You see some things are better > monopolised and centralised. > these are the FUD factors due to lak of propwer proper knowledge. > +1 , It is very sad thing that people who sit at top level Govt is unaware of things. I must say, IAS exam must add a extra subject on "GNU/Linux and IT" > I have personally been to such meetings and talked with many officials and > so I very well know this might happening in other states as well. > Happy hacking. > Krishnakant. > > > On 24/01/11 00:52, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > > Dear All, > There are many state govt who are ready to adopt GNU/Linux but many > are not comfortable. > Do anybody know reason why some state govt is preferring M$ Windows based > solution ? > If any state govt is not adopting GNU/Linux then > either > 1) it is Corrupt > or > 2) they do not know existence of GNU/Linux > or > 3) GNU/Linux adoption process is going on and 100% removal of M$ is not > done. > > In case 1&2, "what a shame" > > There can be many other reasons for it. > > At the same time, how we can know status of foss-adoption in various > states.. > > -- > ┌─────────────────────────┐ > │ Narendra Sisodiya > │ http://narendrasisodiya.com > └─────────────────────────┘ > > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing > [email protected]http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > > > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘
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