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India Eyeing Its Own Open Source Licence
Guru Goo writes "Deepak Phatak of the Indian Institute of Technology,Mumbai has begun an effort to create an open-source license that will let programmers share ideas while also letting them retain the rights to their own software modifications.The license will likely function much like the Berkeley Software Distribution or the
MIT License programs, he added. The number of open-source licenses has exploded, leaving many in the community miffed. But Phatak's proposal comes with the power of numbers. India's 1,750 colleges with computer science and electrical engineering degrees admit about 250,000 students a year. Combined with the outsourcing boom, that makes India one of the major centers for software development.
While the collaboration between academia and industry in india is not as pervasive as in the U.S., it is growing."
What an awesome name.
Great!
If India has some CEO/CTO/CFO types to spare,
the USA could sure make use of them. We have
far too many greedy, lying, thieving, morally
challenged corporate officer types here that
could stand to spend some time in a "moral values
re-education facility"^H^H^H prison.
Not to mention that working at 1/10th the price
of our current corporate overlords would be
great for corporate morale, the shareholders, and
the bottom line.