Hi Pradeepto,
Quoting Pradeepto Bhattacharya pradeeptob@gmail.com:
Hi,
On 3/23/07, Frederick Noronha fred@bytesforall.org wrote:
Have just learnt that under the recently announced licensing scheme for the cyber cafes in Mumbai, the Mumbai police under its list of requirement vide point no 14 insists on a copy of Microsoft Open License. This license fee is apparently prohibitive and apparently still unclear on the licensing term for public use, and, restrains cyber cafe operators from choosing any other alternative operating systems. I would like to hear from others who have more details. Specially someone in Mumbai. --FN
Yes, Dr. Nagarjuna did tell me ( and Anurag ) aboutthis development. Apparently the lead guy of the cybercafe association has asked for help and is willing to move to Linux. Basic idea, is to have a workshop for some number of cyber cafe owners to start off so that they can completely migrate there Windows boxes to some free operating system. After the workshop, we help a selected group or some such to migrate and keep a check on them if things are alright at thier cafes.
The Cyber Cafe Associations President - Ashish Saboo is the guy you might be mentioning, He is a good friend of mine, so have passed on this message to him. I believe that he is going to hit on 31st March or whenever that meet would be.
Unfortunately this topic never came at the lugmeet, mybad completely. But yes, its a good idea to implement. I am guessing there will be a meet at HBCSE on 31st, is it? We can discuss it then? Dr. Nagarjuna, can that guy from association drop in that day or some other day.
So is this a LUG meet or just the meet to discuss about this topic ?
Thanks & Regards, Mitul Limbani, Founder & CEO, Enterux Solutions, The Enterprise Linux Company (TM), www.enterux.com