[Fsf-friends] Fwd: [fsug-calicut] Some thing to reply..

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Subject: [fsug-calicut] Some thing to reply..
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:03:53 +0530
From: "Jaisen.N.D." <jaisu_vyas@rediffmail.com>
To: fsug-calicut@freelists.org

 Hai,

   Have any one seen the month's Sasthragathi? Not yet? Then please get
it.. It have an article by K.Anvar Sadath and T.P.Sudhakaran, working in
Information Kerala Mission. They tries to justify the Microsoft - based
foundation of the project.

   They point out:

  - Software development is not a mental effort of only the programmers
involved, but, it is a user - based effort in a human centered thought.
So, the training of users, and the efforts which enable the users to use
the technology have more importance.

  > I agree with it. Me too was a volenteer in IKM's OIK project (to

computerise the panchayat election counting centers in 2000.) which was
a big flop.

  - It is a business strategy to raise a particular technology as a
solution for all type of issues.

  > They says that, the fsf movement and all the efforts of volenteers

all over the world are simply a business trick. Should I say something?

  - Application of technology has many expenses.. They include

             - direct expenses
             - non-direct expenses
             - invisible expenses
             - short term expenses
             - long term expenses etc.

     so a technology should be chosen considering all these things equall=
y.

  > Me too agree. Is the GNU more expensive than MS based things

considering all these? Sounds interesting..

  - To surrender to the greatness of a particular type of technology,
and tolerate with it's dominance is not scientific.

  > Here goes all the waters out.. Who are surrendering?

  - Unix is not developed for ordinary users. So the Unix is unreachable
for ordinary users and it is the main drawback of Unix....... All the
capabilities and drawbacks are common for all the OSs like Linux which
are included in Unix family..... Unix and Linux are for the expert users
who are working in powerful computers..

  > It is true that Unix was not developed for common users. But the

train is running.. There was a time, which there were no GUIs for Unix
and it's clones. But now situation is different. Almost all the
distributions of Linux comes with a very user-friendly GUI which are
equally or more better than any other available in the market.

  - Total Cost Ownership ( TCO ) includes the expenses of
administration, training, technical assistance, other services as well
as cost of software...... Open Source code doesn't win the market
because, it feels costly in the observations based on TCO.

  > Is it? Where is the Survey / Study reports?

  - Windows has a simple and easy GUI..

  > Linux has more than one simple and easy Desktop environments..

  - Technical assistance for Linux is limited. Big Projects can't go
depending on volenteering help services.

  > Then how the govt. projects of many countries of the world like

China or Brazil goes?

  - Open Source is only a business trick to get dominance in the market
using some values..

  - RMS is neither tries to connect the bad effects of patents and
copyrights with capitalistic authority and it's values ...

  - Inside the framework of Capitalism, no any future for humanity,
equality, or honesty in long-terms through FSF.

  - C-Dit gets Microsoft products in discount rates.. after the
agreement with them.

  - The agreement is not a new thing. National Informatic Centre and
many State Govt agencies have experience in these type of agreements.

  > I know that The Mail server of NIC for the students and teachers

(http://edumail.nic.in) Runs on Microsoft's Outlook Express. But is it a
model to imitate?


=2E.............. and a lot. What u think? Can't we reply?

-jaisen.

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