On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Everyone, > > > The democracies all around the world claim that they are 'of the > people, for the people, by the people'. Still they have not practiced > 'Public Domain Software' in public work as part of national IT policy. > > Why should we not raise this issue in the global forums of democratic > nations as part of human(public) right in order to institutionalize > FOSS as default software practice To the best of my knowledge, this is exactly the approach, in WSIS, in IGF, etc. It should also be raised in the Commonwealth, and in SAARC, and other such regional fora, where India needs to lead by example rather than by talk or bullying, ie, we should walk the talk. > at least in government public > services including all education? > Perhaps we need to also evolve ourselves up and out of the approach that government contributes to education. While the Right to education is implicit in a democracy, I do not agree that government is the best entity to provide it - and definitely not a one-size-fits-all centralised government. But that part of the discussion is probably best left to another forum. -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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