POWER OF OPEN SOURCE! All Courts in India to use Ubuntu!

All courts in India will now use Ubuntu Linux as the default operating systems on their computers.. !

Evidence: Supreme Court of India - E Committee

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Supreme Court of India « FOSS Everywhere

I bet their reaction will be like:

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Where did you find this Exact reaction pic!!
The pic says it all!

Great news

I don't get it. What is the point of this decision?

sygeek said:
I bet their reaction will be like:

*i.imgur.com/ETqWZ.gif

epic!!
Now they should start using fedora. :lol:

They were already using Red Hat since a few years.

Whats the point ?

deathwish said:
I don't get it. What is the point of this decision?

xtremevicky said:
Whats the point ?

What's the point?
Well, for one, this decision goes on to prove the worth of Open Source OS like, Ubuntu.
And also, government may have realized this better late, then ever, that it's no point in spending on the installation of windows, when all they (court's staff) is going to use it for document editing stuff.
Lastly, using Linux on the systems would be a good decision, since now they won't have to worry about silly viruses and stuff. Also, this would increase the geek quotient for the staff, who will witness that there is a life outside windows! (Pun intented).

And the irony is I myself a Windows user, but soon to switch to Linux.

Point is it will save on crores of exchequer, that means of you and me.

xtremevicky said:
Whats the point ?

Hmm more updated software if they were using Red Hat earlier as mentioned here.

And forget about philosophy of open source, the costs saving from licensing would be huge if compared to proprietary solutions.

Liverpool_fan said:
Hmm more updated software if they were using Red Hat earlier as mentioned here.

And forget about philosophy of open source, the costs saving from licensing would be huge if compared to proprietary solutions.

Exactly. They don't need updated software also. Just something for documents and internet, that's all.

Yes, & i think open office & firefox is all that they'll require to cover most of their computing needs.

Good decision.

xtremevicky said:
Whats the point ?

of your post?

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really a good decision.

Technologically wise it is a smart move .

My post was in other aspect which I think wont do justice to the thread.

^ lol..i took in some other way then. sorry.

ico said:
^ lol..i took in some other way then. sorry.

No Issues !

xtremevicky said:
Technologically wise it is a smart move .

My post was in other aspect which I think wont do justice to the thread.

After open source, outsource.

Yeah really, one does not need an expensive OS for simple work. Good move by the Govt.

xtremevicky said:
Technologically wise it is a smart move .

My post was in other aspect which I think wont do justice to the thread.

Lol, NOW I got the point of your post!

Well, I really believe that switching to Linux would follow in other governmental departments too, and I hope all the money that they save from the softwares are put to some other good use, like building better infrastructures, and hiring educated staffs!

Skud said:
Exactly. They don't need updated software also. Just something for documents and internet, that's all.

Courts maintain database of all records with them which is being real time available to the public and lots of online work is over court system so any robust OS selection is a welcome step..

I think by now linux is rather ready to be deployed in the kind of applications the government normally has. I mean its highly customizable, and you can have distros which automatically start with a single full-screen app instead of anything else and have it shutdown when the app closes, you can have a very high level of access control and security and finally for normal document processing linux is more than capable.

If they implement this everywhere a LOT of money can be saved.

It's coming I think. We at NABARD have adopted OpenOffice in 2008-09 and since last year we are purchasing 10% of our PCs with Ubuntu. Guess something's in the air.

Now their porn, is more safe.