Many many thanks Mr Trevor Warren. You have nicely put your thoughts. It seems to me that not many people on this list are really interested in promoting Linux. Or that they have not taken this very seriously. Or they don't have much faith in our Government.
But let me make it very clear to you luggers that our Government is really very keen in promoting Linux. The only hurdle in this entire exercise is that some proprietary software developers are trying (and will try continuously) to change the thinking of our Government. We, as luggers, should try our level best to send our message to the government.
Also I think that this discussion can be continued on this list since it is related to Linux.
Trevor, I think we should keep away from cursing any OS/software developer while sending our draft to the government. Instead of putting any name we can write "proprietary software developer". However we can keep comparison chart between Windows and Linux.
Also we can not put the following para unless we have some documentary evidence.
As admitted in an internal Microsoft memo "the intrinsic parallelism and free idea exchange in OSS [Open Source Software] has benefits that are not replicable with our [Microsoft's] current licensing model and therefore present a long term developer mindshare threat [to Microsoft]."
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Open Source is doing what God, government, and market have failed to do. [snip]
Hey, don't forget whom we are sending this document to :-) So I suggest removing the above line.
- Issues to resolve : (i) Indian Language Support (ii) Security (iii) Awareness/education (iv) Certification (v) Standardisation (vi) Service Model vs product model (vii) Identification of minimal set of
application
- Transition strategy - Unix to Linux, legacy port
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- Consortium for linux based collaborative
Development? The Li18nux, OSDL, LSB...?
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- Action Plan
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Can other luggers give some input in the above?
Thanks and regards, Keyur