Hi,
I was just wondering if this budget is FOSS friendly
indirectly. Excise duty on packaged softwares is
raised to 12%.
Now, considering most of the FOSS deployment in India
is provided as a service either by individual
consultants or companies, which invites a service tax
of 12.5%.
Any
On 29-Feb-08, at 2:59 PM, Nishant Sharma wrote:
Now, considering most of the FOSS deployment in India
is provided as a service either by individual
consultants or companies, which invites a service tax
of 12.5%.
i hope that a blueprint for a massive agitation on this point is one
of the
Very interesting insight...yes...it does seem that this budget has put
packaged software almost at par with customised software development
(services) w.r.t. taxes.
I was a bit unsure if it would affect open source brands like Red Hat and
Novell, since they sold service license with seemingly
On 29-Feb-08, at 3:47 PM, Rahul Chopra wrote:
support services and hence pays service tax only.
only === 12.5%
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On 29-Feb-08, at 3:47 PM, Rahul Chopra wrote:
support
dear all,
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Nishant Sharma
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Hi,
I was just wondering if this budget is FOSS friendly
indirectly. Excise duty on packaged softwares is
raised to 12%.
Now, considering most of the FOSS deployment in India
is provided as a service
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| taxing packaged software does not necessarily mean the budget is FOSS
| friendly. i would call the budget foss-friendly ONLY IF this tax, or
| some part of this tax, is used by the government to fund, support,
| nurture, adopt,
My my, hey hey, OOXML is here to stay
(with apologies to Neil Young)
And if you don't believe that then your friendly neighbourhood NGO is
only to willing to try to convince your Government on behalf of one of
its benefactors, MS. Now I'm beginning to think that $1.4B was too
little :)
Venkatesh pointed out this URL to me the other day:
http://planningcommission.nic.in/aboutus/committee/wrkgrp11/wg11_IT.pdf
[~ 3 MB]
The intent is fairly well defined, the will to action needs to be measured
plain htm summary somewhere?
niyam
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niyam bhushan
And if you don't believe that then your friendly neighbourhood NGO is
only to willing to try to convince your Government on behalf of one of
its benefactors, MS. Now I'm beginning to think that $1.4B was too
little :)
Hi everyone
I am a student pursuing my B.Tech from MNIT, Jaipur. I
am in second year in Computer Science stream. I
attended FREED.IN 2008 in JNU, Delhi and now i am very
much interested in FOSS community and want to learn
and contribute to FOSS.
Can anyone please tell me which institutes offer
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| plain htm summary somewhere?
The fine gentleman who had passed the PDF link had also expressed the
intent to summarize it on his very fine blog ;) ie you-know-whom-to-poke
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http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature
On 29/02/2008, YASHWANT GOLECHA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone
I am a student pursuing my B.Tech from MNIT, Jaipur. I
am in second year in Computer Science stream. I
attended FREED.IN 2008 in JNU, Delhi and now i am very
much interested in FOSS community and want to learn
and
Hi all,
I am an undergrad, pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from
JIIT, Noida. I am in 3rd year, 6th semester. As I would be doing Summer
Training this year, I would also like to know if there are opportunities in
FOSS community. I had attended, Freed.IN http://freed.in 2007 in
On 29-Feb-08, at 6:54 PM, YASHWANT GOLECHA wrote:
Can anyone please tell me which institutes offer
summer training or internships in FOSS? Or where
should i contact for it?
nrc-foss - ask prof Gaur
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Everyone,
I'm a B.Tech Computer Science student from JIIT University Noida.
I wish to know about the various opportunities available for internships in
the FOSS community during the month June-July 2008. I'm a great follower of
FOSS Events and Developments and have good experience in Linux
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Prakhar Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I'm a B.Tech Computer Science student from JIIT University Noida.
I wish to know about the various opportunities available for internships in
the FOSS community during the month June-July 2008. I'm a
dear all,
from today, 1 march 2008, netscape will no longer be officially supported.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7270583.stm
the above story does mention an obscure browser called IE that ended
up dominating the market.
I wonder why.
in case you don't wish for odf to go that way, read
On 01-Mar-08, at 3:32 AM, Prakhar Agarwal wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I'm a B.Tech Computer Science student from JIIT University Noida.
I wish to know about the various opportunities available for
internships in
the FOSS community during the month June-July 2008. I'm a great
follower of
On 01-Mar-08, at 5:38 AM, Linux Lingam wrote:
goodbye netscape, you were my first browser and for several years
until the birth of mozilla firefox.
where were you in the days of lynx?
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Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
Foss
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