On 08/24/2009 08:48 PM, Nalin Savara wrote:
You the one that lives in England and blindly criticizes everything in India... right ?
I am based in the UK - but no I dont criticize everything in India.
Instead of cursing the darkness, why not light a lamp-- why dont you take the initiative and help the guys at BOSS who may not be as knowledgeable as yourself ?
That is what the initial aim was, when I heard there was someone doing this level of work in India my first take on it was that I'd like to jump in and help since Distribution engineering is what I do for about 80% of my open source work, and even if I might say so - we do a fairly good job of it.
However, every effort to get in touch with the BOSS linux guys and getting any form of input either on the upstream or downstream seems get zero response. I completely fail to understand what the aim here is - they seem mostly either incompetient or with marching on a hidden agenda. Solving both those issues is easy : open up and allow for a community to build around the distro.
In terms of gains from such a community, there is no doubt that it helps the people who want to use it, people who want to contribute to it and people who are keen on helping spread the word and the code around. Surely all of these should be goals the Boss linux people should aspire to ? Does the fact that it comes from and is sourced from tax money make it even more of a goal for a project like this to reach back into the 'donors' a bit more openly ?
Going out of their way, as they are now, to make sure that there is zero momentum around their distro, no community is allowed to come up and there is no contribution welcome from anyone only means that they are working on an agenda, or have incompetent advisors / mentors.
Its hard for me to fathom why they would not go out of their way to tap into the massive, massive talent pool that exists around the open source users in India.
( the rest of your email was just delusional banter, perhaps you like standing in front of a mirror and hearing yourself pour out crap )
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