[Ilugc] Tamil computing and open source
- From: srini.it@xxxxxxxxx (Srinivasan Sundararajan)
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:05:48 +0530
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
<sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>
wrote:
we need more computer professionals to learn linguistic skills. Tamil
needs
lot of tools like corpus, spell checkers, grammar checker,
morphological,
lexican analyzer etc.
we have to create these tools and release them as free open source
software.
many people in this forum might not like it. The tamil computing, as
envisaged by govt & TVU, might have to come up in two stages :
free software -- not in the sense of RMS, but freely downloadable. no
source code, developed and approved in cathedral model. the plus point here
is that the various departments will start using it. our efforts could be
to infuse as many FOSS tools as possible into developing the system, and
the package SHOULD run on linux platform. [I wouldn't risk talking about
BSD and other variants. Anyway, Apple Mac is also not in the picture!]
alongwith, FOSS developed in Bazaar model could be attempted -- possibly
dual licensing mode. It is a long and tedioud process. As Sankarshan says
it is the same status in all indian languages. political & approval
committee changes also add to the chaos. but we could strive.
Srinivasan
CDAC Chennai
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