[Fsf-friends] Kerala and free soft

[Krishna Pagadala]

Hi Arun,

> Kerala is now seeing strong debate on local body
> computerisation and free software.

Somebody in the current government made some
statements on free software when he was in opposition,
is it of any help now?

> Government is planning for a state wide rollout
> of Rs 150 crore e-gov program on M$ platform.
> We have to stop this. 

There are some people http://www.egovernments.org/
in bangalore who are doing some work on egovernments,
unfortunately they dont understand the philosophy of
Free Software, but do understand the "open source
model".
I had an email converstation with Srikanth  Nadhamuni
- the managing trustee of the eGovernments Foundation
- a long time ago. Initially they thought of releasing
all software as GPL, but have now decided  not to do
it, because of "security concerns". Now they are
trying to roll out their software free of cost to
various local bodies.
Maybe FSFI should engage with them.

Thanks
Krishna


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