On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Terence Monteiro <[email protected]>wrote:
> As Vickram and Krishnakant have pointed out, I believe this is more than > just a technical problem. This is really a multifaceted issue in the long > term, and I think we should handle this as such. Our Government may have an > official policy on open document standards, but it seems to lack either the > knowledge or the will to bring the benefits of this policy to people. I > think we need to send them a detailed report which: > > 1. Asserts the importance of providing support for > LibreOffice/OpenOffice: talks about licencing issues of MS Office, the > availability of OpenOffice/LibreOffice for all platforms. I'm sure there > are > more than a few misconceptions about OpenOffice/LibreOffice that we need to > tackle. > 2. Convinces them that a switch to OO/LO is purely in the public > interest, and not of any other parties, and is the best for the people, > reaching a wider audience (including Windows users). > 3. Shows them the difficulty in migrating from MS Excel on a sustained > basis. > 4. Shows them the feasibility of developing/maintaining an OO/LO based > solution. > > It would help to identify their service provider for these utilities and train/orient them to provide an equivalent version on OO/LO. > I will send a detailed report on this, especially the 3rd point soon. An > alternative, radical solution for ITR and Sales Tax would be to have > everything online - use a online application with Javascript and server side > scripting (e.g PHP) to do the work of validation and computation. However, > this seems too much of a switch, requiring a different skill set from the MS > Excel solutions. Also, it may be more burdensome on the server - probably we > all know of government sites going down due to overload. So an Open document > solution seems the path of least resistance technically speaking. Meanwhile, > do continue the ideas/suggestions. > > Private companies are already providing web based solution for free, though they may be using MS technologies at the backend. example: https://www.investmentyogi.com/ Cheers Arjun
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