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
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya li...@sandipb.net wrote:
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
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200903181253.24166.li...@sandipb.net wrote:
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?
Not just that.
On Wednesday 18 Mar 2009, Mani A wrote:
Not just that. Entire right-wing political politics is market driven
and their political parties are
made up of people 'essentially representing business houses'. M$ has
plenty of people in many of these
parties and ...fraudulence of BJP's election
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya
pradeep...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote:
Being the cynic that I am, I'm not sure how much of this would actually
see the light of day if the BJP does come into power, but
Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com writes:
Maybe we can collect outdated distro CDs/DVDs and use them like Lord
Vishnu's Sudarshan chakras against the moral police :-)
ROTFL!!!
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Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com
Free Software - it is free as in FREEDOM
Dear Friends,
Key sections of the FOSS manifesto (Point # 1 on FOSS in education, #
4 on open standards, #5 on encouraging freely shareable, FOSS based
knowledge repositories like Wikipedia in Indian languages), have been
strongly articulated in the BJP's IT vision document that was unveiled
And the pink papers are appropriately shocked.
See
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Microsoft-top-telcos-may-be-hit-if-BJP-comes-to-power/articleshow/4266133.cms
Top posting because I am not replying to Venky, but saying something
related to his posted. :-)
Venkatesh Hariharan
Replying to my own post!!! l-(
paiva...@gmail.com (Mahesh T. Pai) writes:
And the pink papers are appropriately shocked.
Same event, covered in another business paper (not a pink paper).
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/03/15/stories/2009031551170100.htm
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Mahesh T. Pai
On Saturday 14 Mar 2009, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Key sections of the FOSS manifesto (Point # 1 on FOSS in education, #
4 on open standards, #5 on encouraging freely shareable, FOSS based
knowledge repositories like Wikipedia in Indian languages), have been
strongly articulated in the BJP's
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote:
Being the cynic that I am, I'm not sure how much of this would actually
see the light of day if the BJP does come into power, but given the the
choice between 2 (or n) evils, I'd rather choose the evil that at least
On Sunday 15 Mar 2009, Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
I am still trying to do that math. What good would FOSS do to me, if
my family/female-members are not secure and are attacked based on
what they wear and where they choose to go? ah well... this can be a
long rant and I guess this is not the
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya
pradeep...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote:
Being the cynic that I am, I'm not sure how much of this would actually
see the light of day if the BJP does come into power,
On Sunday 15 Mar 2009, Nalin Savara wrote:
[snip]
So... who lives if India dies ?
Am tempted to write much more on this-- but I instead invite the
silent majority to come forward and comment on this issue.
Not here. This is NOT a forum for your pet peeves, as has been pointed
out enough
Hi Raj,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote:
On Sunday 15 Mar 2009, Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
I am still trying to do that math. What good would FOSS do to me, if
my family/female-members are not secure and are attacked based on
what they wear and where
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote:
Everything else being equal...
Getting into the relative non-FOSS-related merits and demerits of
various political parties is neither productive nor desirable here.
Enough other fora available for ranting and
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