Re: [Commons-Law] OpenJudis - Central Information Commission
Via: "Prashant Iyengar"
Thanks Mahesh. And no apologies required. I greatly prefer this
conversation to a passive audience. :)
Your mail has atleast made me conscious that my application has a
Linux-based audience and I should be doing more to help them out. It
has also made me aware exactly of how useless it is in certain
situations like the one you mentioned!
Will work on this and come up with something very soon.
Regards,
Prashant
On 10/24/07, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> Prashant,
>
> First, my apologies if my mail hinted about your programming
> capabalities; that was not my intention.
>
> Yes, I did intend that the database is available to users of GNU/Linux
> systems, and as an ardent user of GNU/Linux, I do feel that lack of
> specialised software for accessing Indian legal databases is a major
> obstacle in acceptance of FOSS in Law offices /and/ courts.
>
> I am aware of judis.openarchive site; and I do appreciate and thank
> you for your efforts in providing *and* maintaining it. Do keep your
> excellent work up.
>
> Prashant Iyengar said on Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:06:43AM +0530,:
>
> > Linux users can install it on their systems, even that will not be
> > necessary because I'll shortly be posting instructions on how one
> > install this database on a Linux/Apache/PHP system (without Mysql, but
> > with a search engine called Swish-e).
>
> Yes, that is more than sufficient. Thanks in advance.
>
> Err .... if you had said in the first mail, I would have waited
> patiently ....
>
> > I don't need help coding front ends. The one that comes with this
> > software (remodelled from the one on the site judis.openarchive.in)
> > has all the features anyone will need although it may not win awards
> > at a beauty contest.
>
> It is is useful, functional and enough when I need it. ,
>
> And, guess I should explain why I asked for a GNU/Linux version - I
> happen to be an AIO without even a typewriter in my office, (No longer
> in practise). As a matter of principle I use only FOSS at my home. And
> I am very much eager to have a look at the decisions. If I were
> working at some other office / location than I am now, I may not have
> access to even the text of the RTI act. On one occassion, when I was
> working at a remote place, I had to spend 3 hours on my personal
> mobile phone to get a friend to read out the relevant parts of the RTI
> Act. This was a situation when the request was of a questionable
> nature, and I did turn down the application ;(
>
> --
> Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.blogspot.com/
> ``Those willing to give up a little liberty for a
> little security deserve neither security nor liberty''
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Thanks Mahesh. And no apologies required. I greatly prefer this
conversation to a passive audience. :)
Your mail has atleast made me conscious that my application has a
Linux-based audience and I should be doing more to help them out. It
has also made me aware exactly of how useless it is in certain
situations like the one you mentioned!
Will work on this and come up with something very soon.
Regards,
Prashant
On 10/24/07, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> Prashant,
>
> First, my apologies if my mail hinted about your programming
> capabalities; that was not my intention.
>
> Yes, I did intend that the database is available to users of GNU/Linux
> systems, and as an ardent user of GNU/Linux, I do feel that lack of
> specialised software for accessing Indian legal databases is a major
> obstacle in acceptance of FOSS in Law offices /and/ courts.
>
> I am aware of judis.openarchive site; and I do appreciate and thank
> you for your efforts in providing *and* maintaining it. Do keep your
> excellent work up.
>
> Prashant Iyengar said on Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:06:43AM +0530,:
>
> > Linux users can install it on their systems, even that will not be
> > necessary because I'll shortly be posting instructions on how one
> > install this database on a Linux/Apache/PHP system (without Mysql, but
> > with a search engine called Swish-e).
>
> Yes, that is more than sufficient. Thanks in advance.
>
> Err .... if you had said in the first mail, I would have waited
> patiently ....
>
> > I don't need help coding front ends. The one that comes with this
> > software (remodelled from the one on the site judis.openarchive.in)
> > has all the features anyone will need although it may not win awards
> > at a beauty contest.
>
> It is is useful, functional and enough when I need it. ,
>
> And, guess I should explain why I asked for a GNU/Linux version - I
> happen to be an AIO without even a typewriter in my office, (No longer
> in practise). As a matter of principle I use only FOSS at my home. And
> I am very much eager to have a look at the decisions. If I were
> working at some other office / location than I am now, I may not have
> access to even the text of the RTI act. On one occassion, when I was
> working at a remote place, I had to spend 3 hours on my personal
> mobile phone to get a friend to read out the relevant parts of the RTI
> Act. This was a situation when the request was of a questionable
> nature, and I did turn down the application ;(
>
> --
> Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.blogspot.com/
> ``Those willing to give up a little liberty for a
> little security deserve neither security nor liberty''
> _______________________________________________
> commons-law mailing list
> commons-law@sarai.net
> https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/commons-law
>
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