On 03/02/2011 03:13 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
@ BOSS Linux - am not sure of the investments and the outputs but
another good thing about CDAC and Boss linux is their presence at many
IT events. The free CD's people may or may not use but what it does is
give publicity not just to linux but to multi language computing.
There was a time when they were ahead of the curve, unfortunately as
with many Govt and non govt projects its all probably personality and
motivation dirven and some other enthu folks must have been posted to
their equivalent of kaalapani and thats the end of their before the
curve production.
I went to bossslinux.in website and found now way how I can contribute
or how they sync with Debian or which packages are available or release
plan or anything like that.
As Gora told, it looks like they too need to learn the Bazaar model of
development.
@ NRC-FOSS - am wondering if there are any on this list - i knew one
person from a lug list and this guy was a pain the the unmentionables
and even after joining FOSS has this demeaning condescending attitude
that is not good for anything leave alone FOSS. And if he is
reflective of NRC_FOSS the i think its better to leave them out of
anything. Am not sure what NRC-FOSS is upto but never hear of them
much , maybe because they are south india based, so any south indian
ubunturos have any idea what they are upto.
Let me be harsh on this person. I don't want to, but have to.
He is probably the biggest non-anonymous troll I have ever seen in India.
He doesn't seem to realize the ground realities and take a practical
approach towards spreading FOSS or it's values. His constant flames
mailing lists and abuses people to the extent that he has been banned
from ##linux-india channel by Raj Mathur.
It is because of this person, NRC-FOSS has a very very bad image in
India. You don't spread FOSS by attacking people, but screaming at them,
but by helping others transition to the new world.
What gora says in relevant - how much has CDAC every contributed back.
My issue if not with contributing back to Debian. My issue is the
cathedral model of development. Probably their workforce is small, then
probably they might find it difficult to contribute.
First step for contributing back to Debian is to allow people to
contribute to BOSS itself. This might take off some load from BOSS
developers so that they can send the changes back to Debian.
Probably not much. In a discussion with CDAC and one other related
government agency at a Delhi LUG annual do (forget the name now) there
was this technology being promoted by the government to promoted
distributed computing in villages. The problem was not the tech (which
was fairly good) but the licenses. The Govt agency has some rule that
if the govt spends money on something they cannot give it an open
license, they cannot give the code away because "its their property? -
Their property? Ask them to check the license. It is stealing!
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