On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:52 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 09 Apr 2008 5:08:55 am divya manian wrote:
Completely agree with this! I grew up with minimal toys not even the
token robot or a barbie.
Same here, it was more fun climbing trees, playing football or 'goti'
(marbles)
Hi,
I am looking for examples where governments have developed their
internal systems in an open source model.
I can find plenty of examples where linux was deployed, and open
source components were used (mysql, apache etc...),
but few examples for whole systems which were open-sourced (for e.g.
On 08-Apr-08, at 9:53 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Just over a decade.
As for tone, here's one message from almost exactly a decade ago,
for purposes of comparision:
http://netropolis.org/silklist/msg00349.html
Jeepers! That site has landmines. I got hit by this one:
And then there's this:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/nsas_linux.html
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Danese Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, NASA has a couple of viable open source projects. Also the Dept of
the Navy in the US was a very early employer of Linux Kernel
The squeaky wheel gets the grease does NOT work with parents. The
squeaky wheel is far more likely to get a couple of sharp, short
whacks in the you-know-where. I got them, and admistered them in my
turn.
It depends on the parent, but I think more often than not, it is possible
to make
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:08 PM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:52 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
forces him to rub shoulders with children of parents who bow to every
expensive tantrum their little devil has.
Maybe its time i forgave my folks for not allowing me
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 08-Apr-08, at 9:53 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Just over a decade.
As for tone, here's one message from almost exactly a decade ago, for
purposes of comparision:
http://netropolis.org/silklist/msg00349.html
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:52 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
forces him to rub shoulders with children of parents who bow to every
expensive tantrum their little devil has.
Maybe its time i forgave my folks for not allowing me to bring home an
elephant (no space, i was told) after my first zoo
If I understood Ashok's question right, he is looking for Governments
that have contributed back to Open Source, not just borrowed from it.
There may be a few examples, however I don't know of any significant
effort in this direction. Perhaps it's because Governments in general
are used to taking
At a state level, ELCOT has done something of this sort in Tamil Nadu
SuSE laptops distributed to bureaucrats (who probably all went and loaded
pirated doze on top of it..)
srs
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FWIW, NASA has a couple of viable open source projects. Also the
Dept of the Navy in the US was a very early employer of Linux Kernel
engineers and the NSF worked on a reliable version of Linux that
proved it could be done.
Danese
On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
If I understood Ashok's question right, he is looking for Governments
that have contributed back to Open Source, not just borrowed from it.
Exactly...thats what i am looking for.
There may be a few examples, however I don't know of
On Wednesday 09 Apr 2008 3:09:07 pm Badri Natarajan wrote:
. I think the quality of parenting is the key factor in any
child's life, and I don't think that has changed all that much in the last
30 years...
Make that 3000 years
shiv
ss wrote:
On Wednesday 09 Apr 2008 3:09:07 pm Badri Natarajan wrote:
. I think the quality of parenting is the key factor in any
child's life, and I don't think that has changed all that much in the last
30 years...
Make that 3000 years
Aren't there a number of studies that say the peer
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote, [on 4/10/2008 7:35 AM]:
Aren't there a number of studies that say the peer group matters more
than the parenting?
Citations?
Udhay
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Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote, [on 4/10/2008 7:35 AM]:
Aren't there a number of studies that say the peer group matters more
than the parenting?
Citations?
Can't recall at the moment. From some book in the last few months.
Ministry of Comms IT 's venture called NRCFOSS - National resource center
for FOSS, hosted by CDAC and Anna Univ have developed a distro for the Govt.
called BOSS (Bharitiya Open Source Solutions) . This is now getting
acceptance across Govt. They not only have a dedicated team working
One of NIC's applications has been placed in the public domain (I am not
sure if it is in the GPL or another open source license) and has been
downloaded by users in many other countries. Let me try to get more info on
this.
Regards,
Venky
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Valsa Williams
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Valsa Williams wrote:
| This distro is Debian based/GNU, and has Open Office in local
languages and
| other apps. They have done upstream contribution to Open Office.org and
| claim to have even contributed to Debian kernel.
it would interesting
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