The Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of India has decided a new mandatory policy for all government offices, where they have to use open source software. The new policy, released last week said that the new government is pushing the OSS (Open Source Software – OSS) for use in government offices since they came to power. The use of OSS not only promises significant reductions in payment software costs but also seeks economic and strategic benefits.
Currently, most solutions governments-e using proprietary software (Closed Source Software – CSS), which is normally licensed by the manufacturer. In such cases (governments) are normally limited to modificacones, share, study, distribute or reverse engineer the programs they use. Using OSS the government hopes to create, modify and redistribute the software without the costs that normally appear when using CSS.
The move sounds interesting because nowadays a lot of proprietary software could be replaced undiminished by options free and open source. In fact, the problem often has to do with the inertia that has to use proprietary software and initial difficulties when switching to open source software, for example Linux vs. Windows. In Mexico this could be a more acceptable political considering the needs and limitations we have as third world country but of course, there are probably many vested interests and make it impossible to think about switching to OSS
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