Hello Krishna,
--- Krishna Pagadala <krishnaact(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Arun,
Kerala is now seeing strong debate on local body
computerisation and free software.
Somebody in the current government made some
statements on free software when he was in
opposition,
is it of any help now?
Government is planning for a state wide rollout
of Rs 150 crore e-gov program on M$ platform.
We have to stop this.
There are some people
http://www.egovernments.org/
in bangalore who are doing some work on
egovernments,
unfortunately they dont understand the philosophy of
Free Software, but do understand the "open source
model".
I had an email converstation with Srikanth
Nadhamuni
- the managing trustee of the eGovernments
Foundation
- a long time ago. Initially they thought of
releasing
all software as GPL, but have now decided not to do
it, because of "security concerns".
Unfortunately, even the most of NGO and social
welfare works are done with clocked intentions.
What I fail to understand is the best of minds working
with eGovernments don't see what 'GPL' is all about?
http://www.egovernments.org/aboutus.htm
I dare to ask !!!
Are the managing trustee(s) using the
egovernments.org to project their commerial
establishments.
cheers
--arky
Now they are
trying to roll out their software free of cost to
various local bodies.
Maybe FSFI should engage with them.
Thanks
Krishna
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