<p dir="ltr">I believe you were talking about the software named iCafe. It's not from any govt. organization I believe. It's from a third party, who earns huge just from the ads displayed in that application. That one is written in .net</p>
<p dir="ltr">I think the police department supported that app, because of its various monitoring features. And they think its effective in keeping track of the users in cafe!</p>
<p dir="ltr">The problem of that app is that, there are lots of ads shown in that app which are fetched directly from the servers, which increases the internet bandwidth usage. And sometimes the speed of the system is affected too.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So, if you were able to develop such a monitoring application minus the ads, then it would be a big hit. And it would definitely replaces the pirated versions of Windows in internet cafes with the Linux variants.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thank you :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">- Sent from my Android device</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 14 Sep 2013 15:17, "Haris Ibrahim K. V." <<a href="mailto:blucalvin@gmail.com">blucalvin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">I had done a similar effort in Palakkad. One of the main problems was that there was some Government software which they had installed in order to monitor all the traffic coming from within the cafe. This was mandatory for the operation of an internet cafe and that software did not have Linux support. I did not follow up further on this.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 14, 2013 3:06 PM, "മഹേഷ് മുകുന്ദന്‍ | Mahesh M" <<a href="mailto:maheshmukundan@gmail.com" target="_blank">maheshmukundan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>We had done an attempt to convert the internet cafes around MES college way back. But it didnt gather much movement then. I think the concept is still relevant and it can be backed by the colleges/commercial FOSS entities around. If you can take it up it will be great. <br>
<br></div>A plan to list out commercial entities in each town/state was also put in shelf. A consortium of these entities is still remaining as a dream. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2013/9/14 Nandakumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nandakumar96@gmail.com" target="_blank">nandakumar96@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
രണ്ടുകൊല്ലം മുമ്പ് ഒരു ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റ് കഫേയില്‍ പോയപ്പോള്‍ അവിടത്തെ<br>
കംപ്യൂട്ടറില്‍ BOSS ആണ് കണ്ടത്. സന്തോഷം തോന്നി (ബോസിനിപ്പോള്‍<br>
എന്തുപറ്റി?). വൈറസ്സുകളെയാണ് അവര്‍ക്ക് പേടി. ഉബുണ്ടുവിന്റെ ജനപ്രീതി<br>
വര്‍ദ്ധിയ്ക്കുകകൂടി ചെയ്ത കാലമാണല്ലോ. എന്തുകൊണ്ട് കഫേകള്‍ വഴി ഒരു<br>
സ്വതന്ത്രസോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ വ്യാപനമായിക്കൂടാ? ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റ് മാത്രം<br>
ഉപയോഗിയ്ക്കാനുള്ളതായതിനാല്‍ അവര്‍ക്ക് പുതിയതായി ഒന്നും<br>
പഠിയ്ക്കേണ്ടതില്ല. ഇനി അവ ഡി.ടി.പി. സെന്ററുകളാണെങ്കില്‍ അതിന്<br>
വിന്‍ഡോസ് ഉപയോഗിച്ചാലും (അതിന്റെ യാതൊരാവശ്യവുമില്ലെന്നറിയാഞ്ഞിട്ടല്ല)<br>
നോഡുകളില്‍ ഗ്നു/ലിനക്സ് ഉപയോഗിയ്ക്കുമ്പോള്‍ നെറ്റ്‌വര്‍ക്കിങ്<br>
തടസ്സങ്ങളൊന്നുമുണ്ടാകില്ലല്ലോ.<br>
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