On Wednesday 17 January 2007 22:05, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering; do NGOs in India look at FOSS as an alternative for cost-cutting at all?
According to those who know (and honest enough to speak), ngos in Mumbai are one big mafia exploiting the ones they are supposed to protect. They are completely dishonest money leechers, sucking up phoren funding by organising paparazzi events which are quickly forgotten by new improved paparazzi events. Lots of money comes from he UN and are targeted at flavour of the day causes, some of which catch the public fancy like AIDS (never mind we have 10 times more TB and malnutrition deaths) or child labour or save the stray dogs. In the case of aids the money goes right back to the donors via purchasing patented drugs whose efaccy is unkown.