Re Re: Re [Fsf-friends] TN may shut door on Microsoft

Sat Jan 6 23:23:59 IST 2007

Frederick Noronha (FN)      fred at bytesforall.org        
     Sun Aug 31 15:47:30 IST 2003]     
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Dear Mr Umashankar C:

Thanks for your note, and here's my response.

Firstly, may I point out that I'm a supporter of the Free Software model; 
and wouldn't like to push the Open Source label just primarily because it 
appears more business friendly. Freedom (of the software writer and user) 
is an important issue, and this should reflect in the labels we use, IMHO.

Secondly, your concern is valid. There's much scope for work in this 
field. But, for this task to be accomplished, we need to involve a whole 
lot of others, and hence involving a couple of evangelists like Atul and 
me alone would be grossly insufficient.

As a first step, I'll circulate your note so that others in the debate 
(FSF-India, LIG, PubSoft, GKD, BytesForAll) get to know of these concerns.

Thirdly, instead of reinventing the wheel, we do need to keep track of the 
initiatives underway at the international and national levels. In this 
sphere, a lot of work can -- and should -- be shared. 

We need to check up about the plans from Latin America (I think) to 
promote a distro for government officials.

Let's see how we can take this ahead. Thanks for raising the issues. FN

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Message: 4
   Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 05:06:46 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Umashankar C <umashankarc at yahoo.com>
Subject: A suggestion on open source SW development for e-gov (To 
Frederick Noronha and Atul)

30-8-03

SUGGESTION TO HOST E-GOVERNANCE APPLICATIONS FREE USING SPONSORSHIP ASSISTANCE

Dear Frederik and Atul,
I have a suggestion. 
I want the two of you to respond. 

The proposal is that a team consisting of people like you and the members of
this group develop and place the e-gov packages on the web for State and
Central Government and their organisations to download and use.

They will be able to modify the code and improve it as well.

I have the full system design for automating a Taluk office, DRDA, Police
Station, Office Management, National Old Age Pension Scheme and Block
Development Office.

These packages can be converted into open source from the present VB and can
be a open source for the entire country.

We can find corporate and other sponsors for various activities such as cost
of coding personnel, hardware, hosting etc. The sponsorship should be for
three years (at least). I am willing to offer the entire service free on a
continuous basis.

People like you can scrutinse the design/code and contribute on regular
basis.

Will it work?

I need your suggestions. 

Regards.

Umashankar

C.Umashankar IAS.,
Commissioner, Disciplinary Proceedings, Salem, TN, India.
(with effect from 5th Aug.2001)
Contact Tel in Chennai:
91-44-22521909 Res.
Reliance Mobile:044- 31047424
BSNL Mob: 94432-62009

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Annamalai Gurusami <annamalai.gurusami at EMAIL.masconit.com> wrote: doxa at sancharnet.in wrote:
>  > Great step. (Perhaps soon we may be seeing Free Software instead of
>  > Open Source - but I think it conveys the *spirit*.) 
> Hmm... can you elaborate on the 'spirit'ual aspect??
> 
> The current (TN's, not mine) spirit is spirit (alcohol) as in Free Beer. Assuming that TN Govt is not part of OS movement, the amended spirit would soon be that as in Free Speech.

Related to this, I have mailed to md at elcot.com (Thiru C. Umashankar IAS, 
Managing Director of Elcot) asking him to take a look at

http://www.fsf.org
http://www.gnu.org

and requesting him to think about FLOSS and not just Open Source; 
Requesting him to think about GNU and not just Linux.  Yet to get a 
response though.)

Visit http://www.elcot.com for contact information of the relevant folks.

Rgds,
anna

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