On 10/8/07, Kumar Appaiah akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in wrote:
Dear Linuxers,
We know Dr. Kalam was a FOSS advocate, and as soon as he was told that his own (President's) web site was powered by non-free technologies, he had it switched to a FOSS based server. But I think the de-Kalamization (read de-FOSSization) has started with his exit:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.presidentofindia.nic.in
when Dr Kalam was there there was his team which managed the site, after he moved out, he migrated it to www.abdulkalam.com along with all his speeches during his tenure, but later leaving few presidential addreses, most are now missing (must be that RB or GOI decided that all his speeches as president may not be outside in public domain!).. meanwhile management of the website has fallen back upon NIC, which is using its old setup (of Windows/IIS) .. much of the site being similar to what it was before Dr Kalam got it changed, with just little cosmetic changes! After new president was sworn in, the site was down for couple of weeks, with throwing up 404's or no content.
(before Dr Kalams site went down i did manage to download abt 1GB of it, mostly all speeches)
Karunakar