India Mandates Use of Open Source Software In Government

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 30, 2015 @02:18AM from the free-at-last dept.

jrepin writes The Indian government announced a policy yesterday that makes it mandatory to use open-source software in building apps and services, in an effort to "ensure efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs." The new policy (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. The move will bring the Indian government in line with other countries including the US, UK and Germany that opt for open-source software over proprietary tools.

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but without GitHub? by aneroid · 2015-03-30 02:38 · Score: 1, Troll

The govt mandates using open source but one of the largest online repositories of Open Source Software, GitHub, is still blocked in India because "cut and paste services" are *very dangerous*
http://t.co/P0f3LVj2tD