On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > A new draft of the National Open Standards Policy (labelled v1.1) is now > up for review on the egovstandards.gov.in website. > > http://j.mp/crlk1x [pdf] >
I have read the policy. I think this is certainly better than it was, and does appear like a good policy document. However, as we know the policies in India are usually always good, but there will be problems in implementation. Now the issue is about interpretation of the exceptions etc. On this, we may have to take case by case after this policy gets adopted. The issue that remains is: as per the definition of open standards adopted by the FOSS community, FRAND or RAND should not exist. Currently if this policy is adopted, FRAND and RAND condition may now become part of open standards definition within Indian legal regime. This is a dilution. -- Nagarjuna _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
