Hi Everbody, This are the Excerpts from Madhyamam daily dated 29th april 2008,reported by E.Basheer about the need for Free Software and two IT specialists in goverment Authority commenting on Software policy.
To Avoid Software piracy and license issues from American Companies,The best Strategy is to switch over to Free Software . This was the suggestion Forwarded by Joseph C. Mathew who is the IT Advisor of Kerala to the news report in Madhyamam Daily about "Indian Software Companies must be Monitered -American policy".After Allowing Software piracy and again bargaining for loss on piracy in the name raid and monitering software companies in india for them there is an hidden Agenda. Software piracy can be blocked with programs not to copycat it.In kerala SPACE and IT mission are promoting Free software in goverment level.He hopes the future is safe in hands of Free Software. Anwer Sadath,Executive Director of IT at school commented that in state there should be long time plan in software policy which must implemented by Goverment and IT industries in kerala that must be on the platform of Free Software So that we can avoid Threats from American Companies.For this we have to develop Software based on free software and opensource,where it has dual advantage ,first a software license in our own hands and secondly price is low compared to american companies. At last the report ends by microsofts deminishing sales in OS.which is due to software piracy.To avoid this the monitering will be tighten in india and other south asian countries.So its High time for Free Software which is always an good option to fight this threat. Thank you raneez -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20080508/9739589d/attachment.html
