On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Aswin M. Sahadevan aswinms@gmail.com wrote:
Adopting Free software is certainly a good step for a political party. We need to hail BJP for this decision.
IMO, we must hail BJP but we should hail them as just another bunch of users but not give them cult status. It should just be looked at as some more users adopting free software and not as a political party. I mean, we shouldn't be endorsing BJP at the end of the day.
This is not the first time that a party has thrown its weight behind Free Software. (http://www.cxotoday.com/India/Interview/We_advocate_usage_of_free_software_a...).
James
It is good that more and more people are realising importance of free software. We should try to get policy support from these political parties. BJP starting to use free software is a quantitative improvement(increasing free software usage), now we should try to take that to next level, qualitative improvement(supporting free software philosophy).
May be this should start from Karnataka. FSUG Banglore team may be able to start working on this. Can we get new government in Karnataka to endorse free software philosophy and begin the migration of schools to free software ?
Adopting Free software is certainly a good step for a political party. We need to hail BJP for this decision.
IMO, we must hail BJP but we should hail them as just another bunch of users but not give them cult status. It should just be looked at as some more users adopting free software and not as a political party. I mean, we shouldn't be endorsing BJP at the end of the day.
This is not the first time that a party has thrown its weight behind Free Software. (http://www.cxotoday.com/India/Interview/We_advocate_usage_of_free_software_a...).
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Arun M arun@gnu.org.in wrote:
May be this should start from Karnataka. FSUG Banglore team may be able to start working on this. Can we get new government in Karnataka to endorse free software philosophy and begin the migration of schools to free software ?
i think we should make a proper ground work and then approach with a more meticulous proposal for adopting free softwares at school levels and then slowly to all the other sectors..
I am interested to work towards this , can FSF-India ( or any body who feels that they are one among responsible person of the Free Society ) give more guidance about the approach that we need to make..as already it has experience in making several types of proposals at different levels and to different people.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:38 AM, renuka prasad renukaprasadb@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Arun M arun@gnu.org.in wrote:
May be this should start from Karnataka. FSUG Banglore team may be able to start working on this. Can we get new government in Karnataka to endorse free software philosophy and begin the migration of schools to free software ?
On software patent meeting Vinay (IT4change) shared a news about Free software powered systems already reached karnataka Govt schools. I couldn't able to follow this with him yet. I think vinay is also a member of FSUG-Bangalore List. Please share more info on this
AFAIK it is not happened through a Political decision. A member from IISc in Expert committee of this project suggested GNU/Linux as the Pre-installed Operating system.
I think it opened up a huge possibility for spreading Free software in Karnataka. We have to find out the existing status first and and create a strategy for a statewide campaign.
We need more volunteers all over the state to start this initiative and Creatively intervene in this
Anivar
i think we should make a proper ground work and then approach with a more meticulous proposal for adopting free softwares at school levels and then slowly to all the other sectors..
I am interested to work towards this , can FSF-India ( or any body who feels that they are one among responsible person of the Free Society ) give more guidance about the approach that we need to make..as already it has experience in making several types of proposals at different levels and to different people.
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