Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro

2007-03-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karanbir Singh wrote: Tushar Abraham Mathew wrote: Dear Mr. Singh, we would like to make some clarifications on what you pointed out. BOSS is not intended to be distibuted behind closed doors. Though it was intended mainly for the

Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro

2007-03-10 Thread gora
On 10:24:12 am 03/10/07 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Can BOSS derivatives be created ? Will the source code be made available online or need I ask for it ? How can I (re)use BOSS for a custom spin ? [...] Is it even an option *not* to make source code for packages in

Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro

2007-03-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 10-Mar-07, at 6:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can BOSS derivatives be created ? Will the source code be made available online or need I ask for it ? How can I (re)use BOSS for a custom spin ? [...] Is it even an option *not* to make source code for packages in BOSS available? I

Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro

2007-03-10 Thread Karanbir Singh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10:24:12 am 03/10/07 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Can BOSS derivatives be created ? Will the source code be made available online or need I ask for it ? How can I (re)use BOSS for a custom spin ? [...] Is it even an option *not* to

Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro

2007-03-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 11-Mar-07, at 6:57 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: [1]: Where should I be looking to find the people _really_ doing the development and any managerial roles involved ? at CDAC chennai [2]: What is the chennai mailing list and where can I find the address for that ? mailing list of ilug

Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro

2007-03-09 Thread Karanbir Singh
Tushar Abraham Mathew wrote: Dear Mr. Singh, we would like to make some clarifications on what you pointed out. BOSS is not intended to be distibuted behind closed doors. Though it was intended mainly for the Government and Educational domains, it has already been distributed