On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:58 +0530, Amol Hatwar wrote: > I was looking at NIC, but my previous interactions with them haven't at all > been fruitful. Last time I had a talk with them, they refused to open the > source > of even the most simple and basic applications. Well, something needs to > be done...
I think we need to do a strong campaign in the government of India to adopt the ideology of Free Software and make all publicly funded software Free. After all, the public has spent money on it and they deserve to get it. The lack of such a policy, and the insistence of the government to see institutions like CDAC as commercial organisations that need to "make money", is a hurdle that makes it difficult, even for individuals in these organisations who support FOSS, to release under a Free licence the programs they write. If I remember right, CDAC is supposed to generate something like 50% of their grant-in-aid. I wonder how much money they actually generate from the software they have developed. Best -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
