I have an opinion, humble or otherwise! BOSS is not worth the effort. Very lackadaisical attitude to support. A lot of commercial considerations. Started in hayday of Maran, with HQ in his town Chennai . Indian langauge enablements have been poor, support for hardware lags behind and is meant only to shamelessly give a chauvinistic tinge to what is otherwise a global effort.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Rushabh Mehta rmehta@gmail.com wrote:
Milind,
Thanks for your reply. There are 2 issues here:
Promotion of FOSS:
- For this what would be a great motivation is if we are able to find the
total amount of money spent on licensing. Maybe more RTIs? I think we can form a group to find this out.
- Building a site like http://www.savetheinternet.in/ <
http://www.savetheinternet.in/%3E that lists all the alternatives etc.
- Creating awareness on social media. I understand most of the activism
on FOSS was pre-social-media and I may be naive, but its worth a try.
Promotion of BOSS:
You forgot the most important question in your FAQ. Why BOSS?
Why is BOSS better than any standard Linux distribution? Taking an FOSS project and white-labeling it with your logo is hardly something we should be proud of.
Sorry to be a BOSS-spectic, but would be happy to learn more.
best, Rushabh
On 27-Dec-2015, at 11:35 PM, Milind Oka oak445@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Rushabh and Dsouza for your kind and encouraging words.
I think every Indian can participate in this activity. The least thing
that everyone can do is to make awareness of foss and boss.
Write some articles, blogs, emails and send to your freinds. Let them
know boss and foss
You know it is Indianized version of linux and also not perfect. It may
be inferior to many other linux flavors. But most of the Indians who are only using computers for their basic needs, it is more than sufficient. So you can safely recommend them. They really enjoy the logo bharat on desktop.
Making it perfect is not a difficult task at all. But we know government
will not do it unless we pressurize them.
Here is a brief description of my humble efforts, apart from PIL. You
are always welcome to share your knowledge and efforts with us.