Just after the good news on Net Neutrality, TRAI bats for Free Software. “I don’t like to comment on a specific product. But India has adopted an open source policy and open API [application program interface] policy. The whole objective is that there should not be a situation of a vendor lock-in,” Ram Sewak Sharma, chairman of TRAI, said in response to a query about Project Loon’s prospects at the India Digital summit. “This is because any service cannot be held hostage to a technology,” Mr. Sharma told the summit, hosted by the Internet and Mobile Association of India.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/adopt-open-source-for-connectivity-trai/article8215105.ece We should demand the same for decentralized services as no communication medium should be help hostage to single companies.
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