Open Letter To Mammootty: Difference between revisions

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When we use Microsoft's products , which do not comply to open standards and are never owned in the true sense , we are subjecting ourselves to what is called vendor lock in. They can end their support our computer systems whenever they will want to. We will be left hanging in the air when they demand more money for upgrades to their software ( which as past has shown , requires more expense in the form of hardware requirements also) . We will be left without a choice. We do not want a society dependent on a company for any need.

There are equally good , community owned alternative to Microsoft products, which comply to open standards ~~Anyone~~ can make software that implement open standards, without any licensing costs and be assured that it will remain interoperable with other similar software.

There are equally good , community owned alternative to Microsoft products, which comply to open standards . Open standards mean that anyone can make software that implement open standards, without any licensing costs and be assured that it will remain interoperable with other similar software.

The state government's IT policy is based on Free Open Source Software (FOSS). The Central IT Commission also recommends using FOSS. Recently , BIS has voted against standardizing Microsoft's OOXML and has adopted ODF , an open standard. The people and Government of Kerala has identified the superiority and excellence of FOSS and has already [http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html introduced it to our schools] and government institutions.

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 When we use Microsoft's products , which do not comply to open standards and are never owned in the true sense , we are subjecting ourselves to what is called vendor lock in. They can end their support our computer systems whenever they will want to. We will be left hanging in the air when they demand more money for upgrades to their software ( which  as past has shown , requires more expense in the form of hardware requirements also) . We will be left without a choice. We do not want a society dependent on a company for any need.
-There are equally good , community owned alternative to Microsoft products, which comply to open standards Anyone can make software that implement open standards, without any licensing costs and be assured that it will remain interoperable with other similar software.
+There are equally good , community owned alternative to Microsoft products, which comply to open standards . Open standards mean that anyone can make software that implement open standards, without any licensing costs and be assured that it will remain interoperable with other similar software.
 The state government's IT policy is based on Free Open Source Software (FOSS). The Central IT Commission also recommends using FOSS. Recently , BIS has voted against standardizing Microsoft's OOXML and has adopted ODF , an open standard. The people and Government of Kerala has identified the superiority and excellence of FOSS and has already [http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html introduced it to our schools] and government institutions.