On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Althaf <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO goverment should take initative to support the FOSS, the half of the > money to be spend on the MS thing is enough for this purpose. And it should > be the duty of FOSS people to draw the attention of TN govt higlighting the > merits. However if govt takes the MS stance we can only be spectators. > > What i see lagging in india is proper marketing of FOSS solution ie even via > paid adds. I have never seen a single add on TV atleast from.govt side > promoting FOSS. >
It was funny to see free software being equated with Microsoft like Redhat$$$$$ by Govt. some time back :-). I wonder if itwas some FOSS people who sold that idea to them! --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
