Government of India Promotes FLOSS at Robert Pogson

In the interests of open e-government, India has widely adopted GNU/Linux in governmental organizations from the legislators to the schools. A recent draft of policy formally gives preference to FLOSS. This has been a long process over the last decade. India has lots of divides and has no need of a digital divide so standardizing on FLOSS works for them.

see Public Software Centre

They are running Debian GNU/Linux, my favourite distro.
nmap -A -T4 www.public-software.in

Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-09-10 06:18 CDT
Interesting ports on mark.syminet.com (206.125.168.128):
Not shown: 986 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
…
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.2.16 ((Debian))
|_ html-title: Public Software Centre | Public software for public institutions

Want a chuckle? The Ministry for IT mentions Linux 15 times in its review of budgetary effectiveness but that other OS only once in regards to security…

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.

1 Response to “Government of India Promotes FLOSS”

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1 zubair Sep 11th, 2011 at 10:01 am

Mr P, I was looking for such a organization, even though I live in a neighboring city I did not know about this.
My sincere thanks from a reader from Mysore City.

thank you!