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With due respect to the Indian government (I am Indian and quite a bit of work for the govt) producing a new operating system is a completely misguided effort.
by plinkplonk 16y ago
With due respect to the Indian government (I am Indian and quite a bit of work for the govt) producing a new operating system is a completely misguided effort. And anyway this sounds like a new distribution of linux (the article does say "Derived from debian"), not a new "operating system".
I would imagine the simpler explanation is that a few "scientists" at CDAC need to justify their existence and have convinced programming illiterate politicians/bureaucrats they are doing something useful fo a change.
- eplanit 16y agoI agree, re-inventing the wheel is misguided -- and I've never known a government to produce technology (sure wouldn't trust government-made technology).
- karanbhangui 16y agoForgetting the Internet? How about all the stuff NASA made? How about crypto contributions from NSA? How about GPS from the US Navy?
- eplanit 16y agoYou're right -- I mean consumer technology. Should've been more clear.
- karanbhangui 16y agoAll the stuff I mentioned is used in consumer products...
- rauljara 16y agoEven then, the govt pays for the basic research from which any number of consumer products are derived. The government is essentially producing the technology, they just are shrink wrapping it and making a buck off of it.
- eru 16y agoMaybe they are just crowding out the other guys?
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- solutionyogi 16y agoYes, government did produce few good things which you can count with your fingers. What about the myriad of failures? If you think about all the wastage done by government, these few good things actually cost us a fortune [it's our tax money after all.] Also, you are under the impression that if it was not for Government, we would have never seen GPS OR Internet or cryptographic progress. I would highly doubt that. I am sure that market would have produced similar (or even exact) solutions without all the waste. EDIT: Yes, government provide us with GPS technology but it was free market which made it accessible to everyone. Can you imagine government being able to envision that one can fit navigation tool inside a phone which fits in my pocket?
- nickpp 16y agoRespect due for a government?! Wow, yours is a strange and different country... And from what we can see, it's not deserved.