Since we're on the topic of hypocrisy (VS and Windows on his laptop), it might interest people to know that Abdul Kalam, India's president, so famous for apparently having ticked off Bill G. and advocating free software for countries like India, uses non-free software, incl. MS PowerPoint. See http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/ others/ict.pps. and http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/ others/FICCI.pps.
His site (www.presidentofindia.nic.in) designed and hosted by NIC, uses a lot of non-free s/w, incl. Macromedia Flash.
So much for dreaming and igniting passions.
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KG Kumar wrote:
Since we're on the topic of hypocrisy (VS and Windows on his laptop), it might interest people to know that Abdul Kalam, India's president, so famous for apparently having ticked off Bill G. and advocating free software for countries like India, uses non-free software, incl. MS PowerPoint. See http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/ others/ict.pps. and http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/ others/FICCI.pps.
His site (www.presidentofindia.nic.in) designed and hosted by NIC, uses a lot of non-free s/w, incl. Macromedia Flash.
So much for dreaming and igniting passions.
It is unfortunate that such a situation exists, but we cannot blame our President for that. We need to bring this to the attention of those concerned, so that NIC may take steps to host the President's site in a free software environment, to give no room for contradictions.
The news I have brought into the list was not intended on the VS issue. I am not interested in people such VS and President. I am mostly concerned with the common people who will get a wrong indication about Linux and Free Software. In this case the only thing we can do is urge the president to use GNU/Linux(I think there is no need of training for such people) regards Manilal
KG Kumar said:
Since we're on the topic of hypocrisy (VS and Windows on his laptop), it might interest people to know that Abdul Kalam, India's president, so famous for apparently having ticked off Bill G. and advocating free software for countries like India, uses non-free software, incl. MS PowerPoint. See http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/ others/ict.pps. and http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/ others/FICCI.pps.
His site (www.presidentofindia.nic.in) designed and hosted by NIC, uses a lot of non-free s/w, incl. Macromedia Flash.
So much for dreaming and igniting passions.
KG Kumar kg at tug dot org dot in
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The redesigned President of India's site at http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in is aesthetically pleasing and now hosted on Apache Tomcat/4.1.10
Our President, in his Republic Day Eve Speech has desired India to be: "A Nation where the governance uses the best of the technologies to be responsive, transparent, easily accessible and simple in rules, thereby corruption free"
The entire text of the speech is available at: http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/eventslatest1.jsp?id=452
Ramanraj K said on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:17:36AM +0530,:
Our President, in his Republic Day Eve Speech has desired India to be: "A Nation where the governance uses the best of the technologies to be responsive, transparent, easily accessible and simple in rules, thereby corruption free"
The entire text of the speech is available at: http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/eventslatest1.jsp?id=452
Right now, I get a 500 error.
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