Hi ! Why is SAAS bad ? What SAAS has got to do with open source and freedom ? It is just another way of delivering software. There are so many open source platforms and tools to enable SAAS.
Cheers Rad On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]> wrote: > My humble two cents below. > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Nagarjuna G. <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> >>> Dear all, >>> What all would be our practical reasons for opposing this? >>> >> >> By 'practical' you mean to avoid all political reasons such as freedom of >> the users, open standards, centralization leading to monopoly etc. >> >> >> Proprietary cloud platform is bad. SAAS is bad. >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html >> >> Three letters so far have been sent to AICTE, by FSF India, FSMI and IT >> for Change. All three of them have given the reasons. How would you >> classify those reasons? >> >> Also, is it legal to recommend one vendor by a Govt department? >> > > Have the letters made any change to the decision? Does FSF India, FSMI and > ITfC have teeth? I suspect the answers to both are no. > > Although, our intentions are right, are we effecting change in the right way > at the right time? Most of the time when one recommends FOSS, the users have > practical issues. Support is just the tip of the iceberg there. Unless the > ecosystem, which presently is sketchy at best, is rock solid to support > change, we cannot hope to effect change. > > Cloud and SaaS are not bad. They are legitimate business with a goal, a > capitalistic goal. I don't see why that is bad at all. Most of the users of > this forum as well as other FOSS forums around the world have capitalistic > ties. I think we should figure out who to bash and when. > > While I fully agree that enforcing a particular vendor or application is not > fair, we should also try to educate the users to make a better impact. For > relatively agnostic colleges in rural areas, it does not make an iota of > difference if they use proprietary or FOSS. In fact, they they probably > favour MS because that is all they know. > > Regards, > Venkat > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
