[Ilugc] [fosscomm] FOSS Petition for WB
- From: a.mani.cms@xxxxxxxxx (A. Mani)
- Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:07:32 +0530
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0 at gmail.com> wrote:
Mani,
You say:
The recent tender
at the WBPCB site (http://www.wbpcb.gov.in/cgi-bin/notice.cgi ?for
purchasing closed source proprietary software ) reeks of corruption,
kickbacks and nepotism by the new players.
"Reeking" is hardly an offence.? Do you have any evidence of, for example,
nepotism?
You need to understand the provider pool and the way the decision was taken.
In
Microsoft's own land the Obama administration is going for Free
software as the means of delivering e-governance.
Excellent.
But in Mani's own State, the Government is using MS software.? What does
that prove?
The State Govt was prevented from adopting FOSS in various sectors
through constraints imposed by the Central Govt. The few lines about
FOSS were never understood by the Central ministers.
So only some departments could be shifted to FOSS. On key sectors, the
Central Govt basically said "If you do not follow OUR specs, then you
will NOT be funded". In school education, the hilarious situation at
one stage was 'a huge load of PCs were sent with no funds for
training". So our concept of "Community based initiatives" became all
the more important.
The previous Govt's strategy was to build the necessary FOSS manpower
through initiatives in the education sector and training of personnel.
A lot has been done. But the present Govt has zero vision and evil
priorities.
The present Govt has also modified the software specs of machines to
be used in schools towards closed source s/w. Ubuntu was compulsory (I
will provide the link later).
Best
A. Mani
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