Manoj, I am in for this. Count me for active participation.
Not only Microsoft products, but all possible 'non-free' enterprise softwares that are used by the government. Regards, -Manish On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 12:00 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Today's Topics: > > 1. Open Office in Government > (Pramukh Pracharak - Grahak Raja Jaga Ho) > 2. Re: Open Office in Government (Nishit Dave) > 3. Re: Open Office in Government (Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:00:37 +0530 > From: "Pramukh Pracharak - Grahak Raja Jaga Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PLUG] Open Office in Government > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello Mr. Anand Kulkarni > > I read your post regarding Open Office in Government Organisations. > And I fully agree with you that government should not spend public money for > purchasing MS Office Licenses when Open Office is available for free. > > We are running a Non Government Organisation 'Grahak Raja Jaga Ho' working > in the field of consumer awareness & awareness about Right to Information > Act. > > 'Grahak Raja Jaha Ho' is ready to take your issue seriously & I find > following plan to force government organisations to use Open Office. > 1) To get all information about funds spend for purchasing MS Office > Licenses during the financial year 2006-2007. > We can get this information by using Right to Information Act 2005. To > start with we can collect the information from Pune District. > 2) We can compile a report about funds spend on MS Office Licenses by > different Government Organisation from Pune District. And I am sure the > figure will touch at least 1 Crore. > 3) We will get the report published in all News Papers / News Channels. This > will help us to gather MASS support. > 4) We can file a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) asking Why Government is > spending Crores of rupees on MS Office Licenses when Open Office is > available for free. > > Thanks with Regards > > Manoj Ovhal > Pramukh Pracharak > "Grahak Raja Jaga Ho" > URL : http://www.grahakraja.org -- That's one of the most remarkable things about life; it never gets so bad that it can't worse - Calvin and Hobbes. -- ______________________________________________________________________ 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.
