I am only privy to the information provided in response to the RTI applications so far which seems to suggest its only OS but I may be incorrect. I 'll send a copy across.
We could find out more but only if we can challenge it in any respect or use the information to take any action otherwise it will be an exercise in futility. The real point being either CDAC did not put in enough effort to respond with data which is readily available as pointed out by JTD or there was a fail in marketing their own product (about which there are doubts anyways but there are alternative distros available) or that which cannot be named happened. There is also a failure on part of the commercial entities in the space to have failed to infiltrate in departments responsible for taking decision with widespread consequences. In the TN case, we see that the concerned IAS office Sh. Umashankar is crying for some kind of help and I am unaware if the community as a unit has provided him any support or backing. As sflc.in, we can unearth information, bring legal challenges and create awareness but we do not have funding for such education based issues wherein education and awareness is required to suppress the FUD. FSF seems to have capacity, bandwidth and the ability to take this fight and take it as a national issue. Dr Nagarjuna and Arun have immense experience in working with education departments all over the country and hopefully would advise as to a future course of action and strategy which the community adopts. They have been made aware of the issue. I also think FSF's Government Affairs head- Mr Sudev Barar has been doing similar work in Haryana. On our front, we are following it up by asking for more information as suggested by JTD (thanks for the inputs) and examining legal details in addition to talking to RedHat and Ubuntu and NComputing who were initially responsible for installation of EBOSS. Your specific queries: Details of CDAC's objections and point by point considerations in sidelining such objections. The minutes seem to suggest that CDAC did not raise a lot of objections other than about interoperability and about switchovers,infact they made statements like their software (sic) is new compared to MS. Did the officials communicate officially with the TN departments, as is required by protocol. If they did copy of replies maybe obtained. What are the Microsoft products to be installed on these machines. Post installation, what are the software to be installed and the budgets for these. We have filed other RTI's to get such information -- Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary, Esq. Director-International Practice Software Freedom Law Center 1995 Broadway Floor 17 New York, NY-10023 (tel) 212-461-1912 (fax) 212-580-0898 www.softwarefreedom.org Executive Director Software Freedom Law Center K-9, Second Floor Jangpura Extn. New Delhi-110014 (tel) +91-11-43587126 (fax) +91-11-24323530 www.softwarefreedom.in _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
