-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
What if politicians innovated the open source way?
,----[ Quote ]
| I read an interesting post last week by
| Morton Hansen (author of Collaboration: How
| Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and
| Reap Big Results) entitled Obama's Five
| Collaboration Mistakes. In the comments
| below the post, some folks interpreted his
| words as an attack on the Obama
| administration. Me? I'd probably interpret
| Hansen's words more broadly. Perhaps
| something like:
|
| Politicians are pretty darned bad at
| collaborating a lot of the time.
`----
http://opensource.com/business/10/2/what-could-politicians-learn-open-source-way
The standard is open, almost
,----[ Quote ]
| indiaâs draft policy on the software
| platform for e-governance has made a
| concession for proprietary software
| businesses like Microsoft. Proponents of
| open-source software called it a major
| departure from the Union governmentâs
| earlier stand, saying allowing proprietary
| software in the standards will limit people
| who can e-access the government. At the
| heart of this controversy is a change in
| the âRecommended Policy on Open Standards
| for e-governanceâ.
`----
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/full6.asp?foldername=20100228&filename=news&sec_id=4&sid=2
Recent:
Steps to adopt open source standards draw flak
,----[ Quote ]
| Indiaâs open source software lobbyists
| allege that the countryâs proposed draft
| recommendations for adopting open
| technology standards and software for
| automating different government departments
| and functions, favours popular software
| solutions from large companies such as
| Microsoft.
|
| According to people familiar with the draft
| recommendations, a meeting of the apex body
| on Standards for eGovernance was held last
| week, and the policy is close to being
| approved. ET was shown a copy of the
| proposed recommendations by one of the
| persons who requested anonymity.
|
| [...]
|
| The most contentious point of the policy is
| that it includes standards which may be
| royalty free and non discriminatory (RAND)
| as compared to fair royalty free and non
| discriminatory (FRAND), which many experts
| had recommended.
|
| âThe entire standard should be royalty-free
| and not just the âessentialâ parts of it.
| In other words, All patent claims necessary
| to implement the standard should be
| royaltyfree. Also, royalty free on
| FRAND/RAND is self-contradictory. If a
| Standard is Royalty Free (RF) then it
| cannot be RAND,â says Venkatesh Hariharan,
| a blogger and expert on open source
| affairs.
`----
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/software/Steps-to-adopt-open-source-standards-draw-flak/articleshow/5475276.cms
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkt8jp8ACgkQU4xAY3RXLo5wHACeIKAHs2NQI4y1EcwCYXoDmZYq
TZwAnRE1VnqKG4h9EDZjSVLMA9IsIhmj
=TDKk
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
