thanks raj, for your response.
>
> One of the biggest arguments against LinuxLingam's proposal appears to
> be that any tax collected from non-FLOSS sales will not be utilised
> properly.
>
> OK, let it not be utilised properly. Let it go into the general tax
> pool [snip]Whatever.
>
> The proposal actually has two facets: Excise or tax as a disincentive
> for deploying and/or bundling proprietary commodity off-the-shelf
> software (COTS) and as a way of generating revenue for promoting
> FLOSS. I agree with the first part -- [snip]
>I don't necessarily agree with the idea
> that the generated revenues would be appropriately used to promote
> FLOSS in other ways, but that doesn't prevent the government from
> going ahead with the first part.
ah well, hope the govt does do something about promoting, developing for
FLOSS, even if it suffers from all the things govt projects suffer from. it
is enough to bring some awareness.
chaos theory dynamics will move things in some interesting direction. right
now there is no vector, no movement, no thing. just proprietory software sold
in lakhs, and a trickle of a few techies hacking away on floss.
>
> Suresh made an important point about FLOSS competing on its own
> merits. Agree with that too, but that's not really happening, is it?
[snip]
>This proposal becomes quite
> relevant in the current scenario, given that the scales are heavily
> tilted in the favour of proprietary software.
FLOSS does not need the indian government.
the indian government needs FLOSS.
this realization will come slowly, for it makes *hard* business, economic,
cultural, business, national, sense.
much like, the indian govt realized neem and basmati must be copy-protected
from the new genre of thieves out there....
thus the excise proposal holds a lot of water.
LL
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