[smc-discuss] Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] FSF India sends letter to Education Minister of Kerala

[Anivar Aravind]

V. Sasi Kumar wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 21:46 +0530, Manu S Madhav wrote:
>> Double standards are surely there when it comes to Kerala Govt's IT
>> policy. I recently noticed Windows being used at Registration
>> offices.. all the document scanning and database mgmt was being done
>> on M$.
> 
> Let us not jump to criticize the government. After all, migrating allame time 
> the machines and retraining the staff is not a joke. It is bound to take
> time before all offices start using Free Software. I would say, "Let us
> be happy that the government of Kerala is the first state government to
> boot out M$ and decide to make GNU/Linux its preferred OS, and let us
> give them some time to get the work done." The opposition from the
> bureaucracy is imaginable--another hurdle they have to overcome. And let
> us not be over-critical and help the proprietary crowd.

We , the free software activists were happy about the policy. We 
believed everything will change if policy is changed.
But We failed in pushing Govt to create a strong implementation plan in 
time.  I feel this is an after effect of it.

We dont need to consider Current IT Policy as a gift from government. It 
is the realisation of the demands of Free Software movement, with other 
progressive forces in the state. If a policy is in place we need to 
claim it all the time. It we fails in claimming it proprietary people 
will enter into that space.

I feel the same about recent malayalam project too. A free software 
policy is in place in state. but this project uses proprietary platforms 
along with free software platforms. It is a failure of all of us. little 
compromises for reduces the political space of demanding the strict 
implementation of policy.


Also I am amazed to see the absence of voice from KSTA against the 
decision to use proprietary software for e-governance data entry work, 
which is not at all a teachers work. If free software supporters in KSTA 
is silent, we must plan to something to make them active again

Anivar

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