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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/10/15 05:18, Thin Rhino wrote:<br>
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On 11 October 2015 at 11:12, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
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> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:20 PM, shirish <<a
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> > we discussed about the immense knowledge gap
about FOSS in India among other<br>
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> What were the salient points of the discussion?<br>
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I have never understood the noise around <My>Linux
& <Your>Linux! I visited their websites and
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different is screenshots with Indian Languages. Everything
else, is just the same that comes with Ubuntu or Fedora.<br>
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<div>Same old open office, same old GNome / KDE.<br>
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Look just a little deeper though - well the message on the homepage
- the bit that says "more than an operating system"<br>
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As I see this, take source code from the web compile it,
re-brand it and gloat about it is made in/for India etc.<br>
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<div>I would rather have you good people spend time & effort
in distributing Ubuntu or Fedora or any other OS to<br>
people and teach people to write good code using these tools.
Who cares, what OS you are using?<br>
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I care a lot - I want an OS that caters for my needs and I want to
run it on hardware that I own. For me that's sufficient reason to go
to the effort of working on the distro.<br>
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<div>You want to stop Facebook Zero and all that? Get people to
access the internet and show them the power of<br>
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<div>free and open source, not by distributing some customised
copy of Linux. But by showing how, the free and<br>
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<div>open web and free and open tools, can help them live a
better life.<br>
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Yeah - we're on the same page here then.<br>
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See:<br>
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hamara linux on arm with solar<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/527811768643751938">https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/527811768643751938</a><br>
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long range wifi<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/566171467055124480">https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/566171467055124480</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/566171467055124480">https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/566171467055124480</a><br>
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and where the only distro to ship with diaspora. Oh and we host it
too:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://diasp.in/">https://diasp.in/</a><br>
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<div>In 2015, writing / rewriting / re branding an OS is biggest
waste of time, effort, talent and money.<br>
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I beg to differ, we have a lot of people contributing to something
here that may not have otherwise done so - and we're not just re
branding an OS.<br>
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<div>You want to spread FOSS, build something like this <a
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<div>and educate people how programming using open source tools
can be fun.<br>
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Like the schools we are helping with an arm based rpi 2 school room?
They need out of the box systems running with the packages that
satisfy the Indian school curriculum. Raise a bug on Ubuntu for that
and see what happens.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/576433652873195520">https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/576433652873195520</a><br>
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So, as I said, more than an operating system. That's why people
spend their valuable time on it - and if it feels worthwhile to
anyone, then that's reason enough.<br>
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