On Sunday 15 March 2009 09:35:54 Raj Mathur wrote: > > Great work, everyone who contributed and specially Venky for taking > the initiative. Everything else being equal, a clearly-articulated > FOSS policy would definitely sway my vote towards the BJP.
Nothing specific against BJP, but do you really think that a policy intention has in the past ever worked against market forces in a government/economics setup which is market-driven? Our past "friends" CPIM talked about FOSS on one hand and proudly announced strategic partnership with M$ for state education on the other hand. We cannot rejoice/rely on support by political parties for pushing for FOSS. I however do acknowledge that the Indian contingent in the recent ISO OpenXML saga did a very commendable job against very heavy odds. Of course the people involved weren't government officials, but at least it had the blessing in some way of the Indian government. - Sandip _______________________________________________ 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/
