http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/01/16/why-i-think-boss-is-not-a-good-business-model/ A collection of jottings on various issues that excite no one else Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:20:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/01/16/why-i-think-boss-is-not-a-good-business-model/comment-page-1/#comment-64728 Random thoughts and serendipity » What a waste of talent and money… Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:30:26 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/01/16/why-i-think-boss-is-not-a-good-business-model/#comment-64728 [...] I had earlier blogged about BOSSLinux and in recent times I tend to abhor politically motivated over-the-wall Open Source on taxpayer money. For example, take a look at this cache.This is the collection of over-the-wall translations of GNOME files. The fun part is that language teams exist for a significant number of the languages that are part of the collection. And yet, the files have the curious header: “Language-Team: Bangla (INDIA) n” for bn_IN example. I don’t recall anyone contacting the group working on bn_IN for this and coordinating the work in that community. The discussion over the past few days on #indlinux also shows that the ml_IN community has not been contacted, neither the or_IN. [...] [...] I had earlier blogged about BOSSLinux and in recent times I tend to abhor politically motivated over-the-wall Open Source on taxpayer money. For example, take a look at this cache.This is the collection of over-the-wall translations of GNOME files. The fun part is that language teams exist for a significant number of the languages that are part of the collection. And yet, the files have the curious header: “Language-Team: Bangla (INDIA) n” for bn_IN example. I don’t recall anyone contacting the group working on bn_IN for this and coordinating the work in that community. The discussion over the past few days on #indlinux also shows that the ml_IN community has not been contacted, neither the or_IN. [...]

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