Published on: 2024-07-21
"Why is software created using taxpayers' money not released as Free Software?
We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.
Code paid by the people should be available to the people!"
The company's latest internal memo about its corporate culture is more about how it expects employees to behave than what it wants to become.
India is well positioned to become a vibrant hub for FOSS innovations. In India, 4G data subscribers have recently crossed more than 598 million of which 96% of them access the digital world via open-source based mobile operating systems
However, India still lags behind the global landscape in building sustainable home-grown projects and needs a strategic plan to incubate and proliferate domestic FOSS innovations worldwide.
How a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians