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Class war and open source

TheOpenAnalyst — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:18:00 +0000

One of India’s main political parties, the BJP, has decided to make open source a focus of its new election manifesto.

Why? Class.

While India has a large, educated middle class, it has a much larger number of poor, and many still live in rural communities. The 21st century has yet to reach these communities, and the BJP claims that by saving money through open source it can bridge the gap.

Class war and open source | Open Source | ZDNet.com

BJP will standardise on Open Source

TheOpenAnalyst — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:30:00 +0000

India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claims that it can save cash for the country if it adopts Open Source standards and software.

The BJP’s policy is remarkably similar to calls by other opposition groups in other countries who are looking for ways to save cash. There is also a backlash in many other countries over the handing out of expensive and ultimately unsuccessful IT contracts to a select range of firms.

BJP will standardise on Open Source

Indian opposition party backs open source software

TheOpenAnalyst — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:26:00 +0000

India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Saturday ahead of parliamentary elections in the country that the national government will standardize on open standards and open source software if the party is elected to power.

The BJP is a leading opposition party in India’s parliament, and is using online advertising and its own Web site as key elements of its campaign strategy for the elections that start next month.

Indian opposition party backs open source software – Network World

Local open-source developers go global

TheOpenAnalyst — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:08:04 +0000

Viet Nam’s open-source developers have joined Moblin.org, an international open-source community by adding a Vietnamese interface on the website as well as launching a competition among Vietnamese coders.

The community of open-source developers now has six members, the US, Japan, China, India, and Brazil and Viet Nam.

Viet Nam News

India’s open source future

TheOpenAnalyst — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:28:00 +0000

Today, nearly every corner of the world faces the challenge of a stagnant or shrinking economy. Bleak economic forecasts, shrinking budgets and increasing pressure on businesses and governments to meet the needs of their customers and constituents—often with less resources to do so—are becoming commonplace. While I’m not naïve enough to suggest a “one-size-fits-all” cure for these problems or that the solutions will be driven by only one industry or region, I do believe that, because technology and innovation drive global economic progress, the remedy for many of these challenges is in our hands.

India is, of course, not immune to these challenges. But the country is very well positioned to meet them. India is one of the world’s fastest growing tech economies and one of the leading participants in the global shift towards free and open source technologies—those eschewing the dependencies of cost and barriers to access that often “come standard” with proprietary technologies. As such, I believe India can play a central role in fostering and adopting the innovations driving its own economic and social growth as well as positioning itself for a larger role on the global economic and technological stage.

India’s open source future | Views – livemint.com