On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Vikram Vincent vincentvikram@gmail.comwrote:
sun in India has already produced such docs:
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/playing/InitialComments
of course, our wonderful foss community has not responded ...
Companies and Govt. sponsored agencies/projects have the responsibility of actively convincing various responsible bodies to adopt the relevant policies. For example, NRCFOSS {sh,c}ould have taken up that responsibility - being a Govt. sponsored project. The community has certain responsibility but limited resources unlike Sun, Redhat or NRCFOSS
No one has unlimited resources, especially in these times. However, more and more policy makers are becoming aware of open source/free software and we can speed up the process by writing to policy makers and asking them to make FOSS a part of the election manifestos.
Venky