[clug] India Mandates Use of Open Source Software In Government

[Bryan Kilgallin]

{The Indian government announced a policy yesterday that makes it 
mandatory to use open-source software 
<http://trak.in/tags/business/2015/03/30/open-source-software-mandatory-govt-offices/> 
in building apps and services, in an effort to "ensure efficiency, 
transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs." The 
new policy 
<http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/policy_on_adoption_of_oss.pdf> 
(PDF) states that all government organizations must include a 
requirement for their software suppliers to consider open-source options 
when implementing e-governance applications and systems.}

http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/03/30/1210205/india-mandates-use-of-open-source-software-in-government

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