Hello, On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Arun Kumar Khan wrote: > Anyway, as for GOI (and PSUs under it), forget FOSS adoption; even open > standards adoption is lip service. Otherwise, we would not have broken > e-governance sites (i.e. requiring MS Windows/IE combo to conduct > business with the govt./psu). Ditto for the states.
I would not blame the government entirely for the latter. Most of the time they outsource to our "software giants" most of whom produce the websites in this broken fashion. (Note that infosys and tcs also use IIS servers though their pages are less broken). Of course, you could ask that the officers of the government become more aware about computers and perhaps hire people to develop sites for them. We have already see how poorly banks fare in this regard so I would not wait for that to happen. What is *required* is that centres like nic.in which are *supposed* to help the government in setting up the sites do a little more homework before outsourcing their work or before doing it themselves. I basically agree with your mail that even while we worry about FOSS adoption, a more basic thing is to ask for standards compliance in e-governance. Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
