Hi, Since the beginning of my entry into the Linux world, I have been thinking that why government does not pricipally accept open source softwares.
Migration from windows to linux could be little bit difficult for computer operators. But I find no reason for choosing MS-Office in the govt offices and schools. I have an extreme openion about it. I have been observing open source communities from last many years. What I found is that our community is seen just keen to resolve individual problems. So mostly the IT students and developers are getting benifited out of open source community. I think the major intension behind forming open source community should be to motivate open source concept in the weaker section of our society. Do not you think that? I strongly believe that open source communities have got lots of social responsibilities. And we must play major role to accomplish it. Now the issue about MS-Office and OpenOffice. We always say that government should accept OpenOffice. And the government is not willing to accept it. I think by adopting proprietory softwares, it is a great loss of public money. And by rule whenever something is available for free even government can not purchase the other. In such cases, why can not we force government to accept OpenOffice? Can we put the legal petition in the court of law in the favor of OpenOffice? Can we come together and make official request to the state government? I think the time has come to take strong action. I welcome your openions on the issue about putting legal petition against usage of MS-Office in the state government. Please share your comments. Thanks. regards, Anand ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
