On Monday 20 January 2014 13:03:56 Sanjeev Gupta wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > First of all, One indian govt body must be formed which will be > > responsible for creating a FREE (mukt) Distro for Indian specific use > > case. It can be fork from Debian. It must include all possible hardware > > driver which are FREELY (mukt) available ! Govt must blacklist and ban > > all other hardware. If any company want to sell new hardware , it must > > approach to that Indian body and get a certificate that new hardware is > > completely working with latest release of Indian Free OS. > > Excellent. But why stop only at Hardware and Software Ban Lists.
BIG RED HERRING! > Why shouldn't the Govt ban all but one model of car (Ambassador) and > scooter (Bajaj)? And one ISP only, please. The list does not specify ONE hardware or vendor as you insinuate. It bans vendors who do not want to disclose the inner workings of their equipment, so that it can be utilised as per the use requirements. The analogy is banning car vendors who weld shut the bonnet. OR impose restriction by making you sign agreements that wont allow you to put a rubber timing belt / tyre / oil / whatever ecept as provided by the car company. > > And once we are rid of Microsoft, I think we should also ban Ubuntu and > Fedora. Debian, pure and simple, the One True GNU/Linux. > > Any pals of Atul Chitnis around, who remember when there was a Govt list of > what modems we could connect to phone lines? > > The problem with a benevolent dictatorship is that the dictator gets to > decide who is benevolent to. And the Govt Department might be nicer (or > more amenable) to Mr Gates, than to Mr Sisodiya. The rest of your post is garbage. Get an education on what free, open and unencumbered standards mean. _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
