[Fsf-friends] News:Indian government initiative launches Linux portal

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

Raj Mathur wrote:
>     Praveen> India's National Informatics Centre (NIC) has launched an
>     Praveen> Open Source Forum (OSF). The project is part of an
>     Praveen> initiative of the government's Department of Information
>     Praveen> Technology. OSF encourages an exchange of ideas,
>     Praveen> information, and first-hand reports of Linux in practice.
> 
>     Praveen> Read full story at :
>     Praveen> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2209345962.html
> 
> Frankly, I'm pretty tired of reading ``Open Source'' this and
> ``Linux'' that.  Everyone's paying lip service to Linux, while
> ignoring the principles of free software altogether.  Let's take the

I agree to the lip service part. OSF or whatever cr** that NIC is upto, is 
going to be nothing but eyewash until NIC itself starts using FOSS. Most of 
the NIC developed GOI sites are needlessly made using M$ based solutions, 
where crores of taxpayer rupees could have been easily saved using FOSS 
instead. Many simple to midrange database backed sites of NIC could have 
easily been done using Postgres/Mysql.

I would take anything that NIC does with a sack of salt until there is a 
sea change in the powers-that-be in that organisation.

- Sandip

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