On Tuesday 15 December 2009, V. Sasi Kumar wrote: > 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
some organisation (i think EFF) has started such a campaign in the USA. > 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. If they just concentrated on training they would proly make an order of magnitude more money and be a lot more competitive than selling crappy software to government mandated markets and pretending they are actually doing work. > > Best -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
