Indian President Advises Open Source Approach

geo_2677 writes "The Indian President Dr. A Kalam has advised defense scientists to go for open-source software for software security, rather than be stuck with insecure proprietary software. Being a scientist himself, he surely knows what's good for his country." Speaking at the Indian Navy's Weapons and Electronic System Engineering Establishment, Kalam argued: "Open source codes can easily introduce the users to build security algorithms in the system without the dependence of proprietary platforms", though continues: "We should take maximum care to ensure that our solution is unique to protect our own defence security solutions implemented on open platforms." We previously reported on Richard Stallman's meeting with Dr. Kalam earlier this year.

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Re:Security by obscurity?

[cOdEgUru]

Are you on weed?

Expect Indians to open up their defence security solutions the day after West does the same. He is asking to implement them on an open platform, not necessarily calling the actual implementation to be an inherently open one.

The former makes sense, the latter is just moronic, in the matters of national defense. The last thing you want to do is to have public access to boolean launchmissile(...)

Re:His scientific affiliations

[crushinghellhammer]

You obviously know nothing about the Indian caste system - it's past or it's present (ir)relevance.

You're probably just another of those Americans that automatically think "snake charmer", "elephant", "curry" and "caste system" when you hear about India.

Try and learn a little more about what you comment about before you put your ignorance on such splendid display - even if it's behind the veil of an AC.