On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Arun SAG <saga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many people has admired on L.K Advani's IT vision. > > It seems like Gujarat is making an U-Turn > .http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/project-on-it-upgradation-in-schools-makes-no-headway-in-gujarat/434979/ > <http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/project-on-it-upgradation-in-schools-makes-no-headway-in-gujarat/434979/> > Conflicts of opinion between education department and IT department. > > LOL MOU with Microsoft to aid teachers in teaching FOSS. (this shows > politicians dont know a heck about foss, or M$ might have bribed them (if u > sign MOU with software gaint you get publicity for sure ) ) >
People from Microsoft approach government and do whatever (one could tag it as lobby, persuade, sell, bribe, market etc.,) for their products. Was there an attempt from people from the Community/ FOSSY corporates to meet the government officials. politicians, identifying the right person to get FOSS done at the government level? Was there an attempt of this kind? If not it is likely that M$ will push and rush through. -- ஆமாச்சு _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
