On 05/11/06, Anand Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/2/06, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sudev Barar wrote: > > > Interesting read at http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/420 > > > How to convice our Government babus that the road being followed by > > > them is not the best use of tax payers money? But then probably it is > > > wrong for me to expect babus to have any sense in spending taxpayers > > > (my) money. > > > Things are'nt that simple. Its not babudom which resists adoption of FOSS > but its "Resistance to Change", which resists adoption not only of FOSS, but [SNIP] > Why Babus only? I think situation is largely similar at most BSE-50 / > NSE-50 Private Sector Commercial companies. I think its time that we in the
My comment on Babu's was solely due to the fact that they are using our monies to spend. > community constitute a SIG: Special Interest Group to devise means and dwell > on issues concerning FOSS adoption in corporates. Many issues are easily > doable - Awareness and debunking Myths for one, Training and Exposure > modules, Vendor Development etc Perfectly with you. The community leveraging its contact base and projecting alternates is one of the best (and only?) tool for propogating community owned software awareness. > Further there is a strong need to somehow influence the school system to > expose the new generation to FOSS. Influenced largely by mandarins (babu's) of education ministries of various states as education is state subject. -- Regards, Sudev Barar _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
