-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote:
> However, that finally does imply that one cannot blindly point at > these cases and say that they are major wins for open source. They're > good, but they aren't that significant in the greater scheme of > things. Certainly nothing for the /. crowd to go beserk about. I would love to disagree here :) Cases like IRCTC, Airtel and others including CanBank, LIC, NIA, IndiaBulls (shamelessly plugging my employer) go a long way in providing that OSS/FLOSS is considered as a 'viable' alternative (in addition to being cost effective). They are significant since the /. crowd do not really bother to check up existing reports on already well running stuff and picked up this particular item to start tomtomming about. > Far more significant would be an Indian problem being solved using > OSS. Say, something like ITC's eChaupal implemented as open source for > farmers co-operatives. Or perhaps more importantly, contribute to something like Sahana...The issue with ICT4D projects and FLOSS is that FLOSS can only provide a framework within with the project objectives can be achieved. For the sake of argument, given enough resources, eChoupal might as well be specced on Mac ;) - -SM - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEOyWbXQZpNTcrCzMRAjA3AJ932x8Q959Go8XobtI63MSJ5yEgUwCfe0WP iuKoMWPaORwPC5gptb4H3ZE= =gKQj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
