[FSUG-Bangalore] Free Software and Unique Identification Card

[Aaditya Manjanath]

I agree that it is a threat to the free software community. And I agree that
we should, as far as possible, stop this.

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Sanchith K. <sanchith at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> This mail comes in light of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' address to the
> NASSCOM CEO's Forum in New Delhi on 24th July, 2009 (source: The Hindu).
> Gates expressed Microsoft's interest in being involved with the National
> Unique Identification Project (UID). There is no surprise here that
> Microsoft wants to gain from the huge amount of funding. Also it is not
> unlikely that Microsoft will do everything in its power to be involved in
> the project. Such involvement by a propreitary vendor will only increase
> India's reliance on propreitary software and is bound to be a huge gain for
> such software. At a broader level, India's reliance on propreitary software
> will also put the vast amounts of our nationa's vital information in other's
> hands. There are several other shortcomings of using propreitary software
> and several advantages of using free-software, too long a list to be
> mentioned here.
>
> Thus it become an onus on the part of the Free Software community in
> advising the Unique Identification Authority of favouring free-software
> technologies. I am not aware of any such campaign by the free-software
> community in this regard. If so I believe that we must start immediately at
> supporting such campaign and put up a united front against use of
> propreitary softare in the UID project and am releived that my concerns are
> not just isolated. It would also help to popularize free-software in India.
>
> I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on this topic.
>
> Thanks,
> Sanchith K.
>
>
>
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Aaditya Manjanath
3rd yr BE, RVCE
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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