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Open source as industrial policy
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| How far you go down that slippery slope shows how devoted you are to the
| ideology.
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| It has become clear to me over the last few years, however, that many
| countries see open source as an important industrial policy. Ideology be
| darned.
|
| [...]
|
| Europe isn’t the only place taking this stand. Brazil has long seen open
| source as its route to software independence. Having built that independence
| it now wants to export its fruits, starting with Africa.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2544
Unsurprisingly, Republicans have just signed some deal with Microsoft. It's
like imperialism. It can't last forever.
Recent:
Finally, My open letter on OOXML happenings in India
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| My first anguish is the way the name of my colleagues and my Institution,
| along with names of several others on the committee LITD 15, have been
| maligned and tarnished by Microsoft. My second anguish is that Microsoft
| persisted in its attempt to pressurize Indian leadership to change the Indian
| stand, in spite of the fact that a due process established by the Government
| had completed its job, recommending no change in the Indian vote. These two
| things, amongst others, have caused me to lose my peace of mind and my sleep
| over last two months. I share my thoughts (which sometimes have been rather
| wild), and my anguish in this section.
|
| [...]
|
| If no citation from the new standard (as on 20th March 2008) is available
| from these members, should the nation now conclude that these 4 organizations
| deliberately acted against Indian national interests? If there is any
| evidence of support now found to have been given by any one of these 4
| organizations to the efforts of Microsoft to pressurize the Indian Government
| to change our vote, should the nation now conclude that there indeed is
| a ‘secret alliance with Microsoft to loot the country’?
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http://deepakphatak.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-is.html
What Policy Should India Adopt for ICT in School Education?
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| Considering that computer science is a strange mix of deep theory as well as
| sophisticated technology, it is very vital for any society to use this
| transparently. Else, we will let some agencies become monopolies. This is a
| serious danger to digital society because, the data that is digitized belongs
| to you and me, and not to the company. But, in reality today, our data has
| been handed over to the proprietary companies, since they alone have the
| license to decode our own documents. This will create a possibility for
| computer crime, which is happening all around our eyes. We should we let this
| happen?
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http://gnowgi.org/2008/04/27/what-policy-should-india-adopt-for-ict-in-school-education/
South Africans don’t understand OSS - Microsoft
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| Despite having an open source strategy the South African government doesn’t
| really understand how to benefit from OSS. This is according to Microsoft
| director of corporate standards, Jason Matusow. Matusow, who was in South
| Africa on an “external outreach” trip around the time SA adopted ODF as a
| national standard, writes on his blog that not only does government not
| understand how to benefit from open source software, but South Africans were
| unlikely to ever do any “deep” development work on Linux.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2432
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