RKVS Raman wrote: > People like Gora Mohanty have set such a high standards for themselves > that anything done at a lesser magnitude fails to please them.
Intervening here since it seems that parties have misconstrued the mail(s). What (I perceive) Gora wanted to highlight was the current lul in the action-on-field vis-a-vis L10n. On the other hand, Raman and his team have shown that work can be done within the framework in place to make sure that news about FLOSS L10n gets press. > Anyway what was done was not something small. These launches have > contributed a lot in way of creating some major policy changes. For > first time people in India have looked at Non-English computing as a > possiblity. People have become aware of the amount of localisation > work happening in India. More and more development teams are getting > interested. There is a new sense of pride in working on localization. Like I said, this paragraph if stated above might have led to a lesser number of mails being exchanged :) > Government is issuing policies which direct OEMs to bundle local > language softwares in their products. HCL has come up with a low-cost > PC (<Rs 10000) which is Linux driven. All these are not stories but > plain facts. Gora in his criticism has commented about Mozilla > violation without checking on the facts. I request him to see the > following issue that was filed much before the release. HCL is also selling a Windows XP Starter Edition bundle (tongue firmly in cheek). The idea that Linux on the desktop at sub 10K INR is finally possible because the commonly used applications are available in local languages or have a well discussed roadmap of becoming available. That gives confidence to the vendors who wish to sell the hardware. What is required at this stage is a roadmap from the developer community as to how they plan to carry the work forward across the versions and provide the required level(s) of QA and consistency. > If the CDs dont make impact why should "Linux For You" carry it as a > supplementary in its July issue? As someone who has been privy to how magazines decide on CDs, let's not go into this. > Well I agree some fonts were not free but that does not mean they are > not accessible. They are always available for download. We had to take > the interests of the contributers into account while packaging the CD. Not free fonts might cause a problem when you articulate a completely FLOSS stack. The ideal notion might be to create a project wherein all the components are also developed and released under FLOSS licenses. > On the whole, we need people like Gora to comment on it so that we can > avoid or try to avoid some mistakes in the future releases. :) This is going more into [OT] space. Regards SM -- >From Untruth, lead me to the Truth, >From Darkness, Lead me towards the Light, >From Death, Lead me to Life Eternal. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
