On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Sanjeev Gupta <gha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mani, > > You say: > >> The recent tender >> at the WBPCB site (http://www.wbpcb.gov.in/cgi-bin/notice.cgi for >> purchasing closed source proprietary software ) reeks of corruption, >> kickbacks and nepotism by the new players. > > "Reeking" is hardly an offence. Do you have any evidence of, for example, > nepotism?
You need to understand the provider pool and the way the decision was taken. > >> In >> Microsoft's own land the Obama administration is going for Free >> software as the means of delivering e-governance. > > Excellent. > > But in Mani's own State, the Government is using MS software. What does > that prove? The State Govt was prevented from adopting FOSS in various sectors through constraints imposed by the Central Govt. The few lines about FOSS were never understood by the Central ministers. So only some departments could be shifted to FOSS. On key sectors, the Central Govt basically said "If you do not follow OUR specs, then you will NOT be funded". In school education, the hilarious situation at one stage was 'a huge load of PCs were sent with no funds for training". So our concept of "Community based initiatives" became all the more important. The previous Govt's strategy was to build the necessary FOSS manpower through initiatives in the education sector and training of personnel. A lot has been done. But the present Govt has zero vision and evil priorities. The present Govt has also modified the software specs of machines to be used in schools towards closed source s/w. Ubuntu was compulsory (I will provide the link later). Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
