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Public Software for the Public Sector
Signatories
| Name | City/Village | Comments |
Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOSS Manifesto | |||
| bijoy | Bangalore | ||
| Suparna Diwakar | Bangalore | ||
| Imran | Kolkata | ||
| J. T. D'souza | Mumbai | The use of open and unencumbered standards is vitally important when storing public data. The life of this data is a minimum of 6 years and a maximum of infinite. Typically tax records need to be stored for six years, education records for a lifetime (70 yrs?) and land records for several generations. The average life of a software program is about six years for small systems and 10 years for large systems. http://www.graco.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tamai/pub/icsm92.pdf. Thus using closed formats will render these electronic documnets un useable. It's called bitrot. Further the used of encumbered or closed formats by government forces citizens to buy software to access government data. This is akin to the government using public money to promote a private Company's product, something which must be avoided at all costs. | |
| Chowde Gowda | Bangalore | ||
| Akash Garg | New Delhi | ||
| Shakthi Kannan | Hyderabad | Free Software for the people. | |
| satish kale | Mumbai | This is how it should be..... | |
| Santanu Dutt | Mumbai | ||
| Smita Deb | Kolkata | ||
| Kushal Das | Ukhra, West Bengal | ||
| Raghunandan Hegde | Bangalore | ||
| Raghunandan Hegde | Bangalore | ||
| Narendra Sisodiya | Delhi | ||
| Sandeep | Mumbai | I agree | |
| Siddhesh Poyarekar | Pune | ||
| Aamod Nerurkar | Vasai, Mumbai | ||
| Viswanath Durbha | Bangalore | In my humble opinion, this manifesto clearly articulates the reasons why FOSS should be encouraged and practiced in India and the benefits to our community will be immense. | |
| Mehul Ved | Mumbai | ||
| Sunayana | delhi | ||
| Sandeep Mukherjee | Kolkata | ||
| Gurteshwar Singh | New Delhi | Pay serious attention! | |
| Varun Thacker | Kolkata | ||
| Niveditha Menon | Bangalore | ||
| Shashi Rekha | bangalore | ||
| Vinay Raghavan K S | Mysuru | This is the time India wakes up to the perils of vendor lockin and proprietary standards and do away with them. FOSS promotes innovation and a better culture for knowledge sharing. Our leaders should be promoting FOSS for the development of India. | |
| K Raghu Prasad | Navi Mumbai | ||
| Sudev Barar | Faridbada 121001 | ||
| Kartik Mistry | Ahmedabad | <p>+1</p> | |
| Ankit.V.Nevatia | Baroda(gujrat) | ||
| Hardik Dalwadi | Ahmedabad, Gujarat | ||
| Devendra Laulkar | Pune | ||
| satyaakam goswami | Indirapuram , Ghaziabad | <p>satyaakam.net</p> | |
| Subin Jose | Chennai | ||
| Amogh Akshintala | Bangalore | <p>FOSS would be a great cost cutter for the government. and this proposal will help us understand the minds of our politicians to see how knowledgeable they are with current technology. </p> | |
| Amit bhardwaj | New Delhi | ||
| Bejoy K Thomas | Bangalore/Kottayam | ||
| Vinay | Bangalore | ||
| Abhinav Sahai | Bangalore | <p>This is a very good step for something which needs immediate attention especially from the non-technical fraternity.</p> <p>thanks for doing this</p> | |
| Gurpreet Singh Bhatia | New Delhi | <p>That's a very good move, it will surely boost the use of open technologies and more people will realize that how beneficial it is. And the biggest step will be this one. </p> | |
| Hari K T | Calicut | If letters were not discovered you may have not spoken or written . You gain knowledge from others. So make a give and take policy . Don't try to hide it. You may have hide it , but one day the world will recognise . You are not only the genius , others too recognise it ;-) Welcome FOSS http://www.harikt.com | |
| V. Sasi Kumar | Thiruvananthapuram | ||
| Rajeesh | Kerala | Freedom comes with a price. It is worth it, because Freedom is priceless! | |
| Sajana Jayaraj | Thane, Maharashtra | ||
| Krishna Pagadala | Bay Area, USA | ||
| K.Arvind | Bengaluru | Please promote free software, as its good both for the people and the systems :) | |
| Vivek Vaidyanathan | Bangalore | ||
| Ashwini Bharadwaj | Bangalore | ||
| Srinivas Murthy G R | Mysore |