This is really sad news. I remember working with him during the open
standards fight and admired his determination to ensure that proprietary
standards did not prevail. In fact, one of the crucial meetings during the
open standards fight was held in his house. He was such a lovable and
outspoken
The Hindu has a nice feature on the Indian open standards policy. The
examples cited in this article are very relevant.
Venky
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A radical shift in e-governance
On November 12, in a very progressive and sound move, the Union Ministry of
Communication and Information Technology notified the
This article of mine appeared at
http://opensource.com/government/10/11/open-standards-policy-india-long-successful-journey
Venky
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Open standards policy in India: A long, but successful journey
Posted 19 Nov 2010 by Venkatesh Hariharan (Venky) (Red Hat)
Last week, India became another
The open standards policy has been finalized and it incorporates many of the
suggestions made by the FOSS community in India. In the previous draft dated
25/11/2009, our major objection was to section 4.1.2 of the policy which
said,
4.1.2 The essential patent claims necessary to implement the
Dear Krithika,
This is a welcome initiative by CIS. The kind of sneaky language that
is being used to file software patents is against the will of the
Indian parliament and needs to be defeated.
Venky
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Krithika krithika...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, software is not
Sudhanwa, I am not a lawyer, but some software patents have been
granted by the patent office, while many others have been applied for.
Based on the status, one will have to file a pre-grant or post-grant
opposition against these patents.
Venky
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Sudhanwa
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote:
Sudhanwa, I am not a lawyer, but some software patents have been
granted by the patent office, while many others have been applied
The FOSSCOMM Mumbai Meeting photos are now online at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/venky7/sets/72157622560678420/
It's been an intense and interesting day-long discussion. Will send an
update later. Meanwhile, enjoy the photos :-)
Venky
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Praveen Aprav...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/7 narendra sisodiya narendra.sisod...@gmail.com:
I wonder if the last date was 7th july !!
I think it is extended till 15th as per Jaijith's mail in fosscomm list.
- Praveen
The Apex committee will meet on July 15th.
Does anyone have copies of/links to university syllabus that
prescribes open source software in the main (not elective) syllabus?
One of our supporters is advising a university in connection with
finalizing the syllabus for their courses. Currently, their syllabus
includes
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya li...@sandipb.net wrote:
On Sunday 15 March 2009 09:35:54 Raj Mathur wrote:
Great work, everyone who contributed and specially Venky for taking
the initiative. Everything else being equal, a clearly-articulated
FOSS policy would
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya
pradeep...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote:
Being the cynic that I am, I'm not sure how much of this would actually
see the light of day if the BJP does come into power, but
Dear Friends,
Key sections of the FOSS manifesto (Point # 1 on FOSS in education, #
4 on open standards, #5 on encouraging freely shareable, FOSS based
knowledge repositories like Wikipedia in Indian languages), have been
strongly articulated in the BJP's IT vision document that was unveiled
Dear Friends,
The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community has published a
manifesto requesting Indian political parties to make FOSS usage and
promotion a central part of the IT, e-government and education plans.
FOSS is a powerful enabler for spreading education and opportunity to
all
Dear Vinay,
This is a welcome initiative and I wish I could have joined you guys
in Bangalore. However, I just returned from vacation and saw this mail
today... too late to hop onto a plane:-) A quick submission I'd like
to make is that FOSS can play a huge, constructive role in India's
With elections approaching in April 2009, it was time to create a
draft FOSS manifesto for Indian political parties. This is a first
draft and I have written this keeping in mind that most Indian
politicians would not be familiar with FOSS. Hence, the usage of
simple language that anyone can
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/20 narendra sisodiya narendra.sisod...@gmail.com
This link belongs to M.P. govt http://dit.mp.gov.in//incentive11.htm
Firefox users are unable to see the table.
Don't want to discourage or anything in
to
abstract ideas in the US, and is good for software developers, says
Venkatesh Hariharan
In their book, Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put
Innovators at Risk, Boston University professors, James Bessen
Michael J. Meurer, show that Murphy's Law (If anything can go wrong
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 18 Oct 2008, PJ wrote:
tirveni yadav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russia's top leadership is advocating and making policies which are
good for open source.
Heh. Cue lots of american trolls saying linux is
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