On Friday 11 Jul 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > [snip] > This may not fall under the realm of "Licences" as in above. Please > include if you think it appropriate. > > - Public Portals (developed using open standards) > > Govt. and PSU portals are being developed by companies like TCS and > such. Some of these sites are begining to enforce authentication > with Digital Signatures (usb dongle). They are using some MS > proprietary technology that works only with WinXP and IE. This is > tantamount to the Govt. and PSUs endorsing a proprietary product and > forcing it's citizens to either buy a legit. Windows lic. or resort > to piracy and break the law. > > Orgs. who work with Govt./PSU portals have raised this issue "but > with a Linux desktop we cannot download/upload tenders (or > whatever)."
That's a great topic and deserves a few days discussion to itself. Let's see if we can get some experts and movers in and do a small workshop-type thingie on FOSS and GoI. Just thinking off the top of my head here, so no commitments! Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ 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/
