Howdy all,
The push for software freedom in government continues.
With this announcement, the Indian Govt. is following the steps of nations like Germany and UK. The financial benefit of using open source is the primary reason behind the drive. “Organizations worldwide have adopted innovative alternative solutions in order to optimise costs by exploring avenues of “Open Source Software”. GoI has also been promoting the use of open source technologies in the e-Governance domain within the country in order to leverage economic and strategic benefits.” – the charter reads.
“Adopt open standards and promote open source and open technologies”, it boldly states.
The nature of compliance has been set to “mandatory” indicating the Govt. is serious on implementing the policy. All public facing offices would be required to follow the same.
URL:http://tuxdiary.com/2015/11/02/indian-govt-adopts-open-source/
This clearly could not have happened without popular groups in India pushing for it for a long time. In turn, that has happened because of inspiration from similar success in European countries.
Thank you again to everyone in FSFE, please keep promoting software freedom for all citizens of the world!