Dear Siji and group,
As a part of Government system, I defer with common assumption of favoring to
CSS in Government setup every often by exercising the exception clause. As the
commitment for the OSS by the individual who has some awareness of Open source
will always support the solution.
Probably my general opinion of the OSS solution support may be clarified that
the support for OSS systems is either expensive or nil, there is way out to
carry out things on your own by way of online guideline data but this will be a
challenging task as not all of the users or the experts if any are conversant
with such practice.
Hope you will understand the spirit behind the same. We may try to arrange to
develop such skill set by way of involving the interested Government
representatives like me, IT students and general citizen interested for the
same.
Regards,
DulangeS.09819294898.
On Monday, 30 March 2015 5:38 PM, Siji Sunny <[email protected]> wrote:
The government has announced open source policy which is applicable to all
> Government organizations under the Central Governments and those State
> Governments.
>
> Key highlights of government’s open source policy include:
>
> – All future Requests for Proposals (RFPs) of eGovernance projects shall
> include a mandatory clause for considering Open Source Software (OSS) as a
> preferred option in comparison to Closed Source Software (CSS). Suppliers
> shall provide justification for exclusion of OSS in their response.
> - Government Organizations shall ensure compliance with this requirement
> and decide by comparing both OSS and CSS options with respect to
> capability, strategic control, scalability,security, life time costs and
> support requirements.
>
> – GoI shall establish suitable support mechanism for the available OSS
> that includes Institutional Mechanism, Partnership with Industry, Academia
> and OSS Community.
>
Dear All,
I afraid, the clause-7 (Exception) may can easily mis-used by organizations
influenced by $MS like preparatory software companies.
Clause 7 :Exception -
"However, in certain specialised domains where OSS solutions meeting
essential functional requirements may not be available or in case of
urgent / strategic need to deploy CSS based solutions or lack of
expertise (skill set) in identified technologies, the concerned Government
Organization may consider exceptions, with sufficient justification."
And I doubt, are we really lacking expertise and skillset, to identify the
right Open-Source alternatives and implement it ?
> You can download it from -
>
>
> http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/policy_on_adoption_of_oss.pdf
>
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> Siji Sunny
>
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