Articles tagged ‘freedom’

Finally, Free and Open Source Software gets its turn at the helm!

Aruna Sundarajan is a senior IAS bureaucrat and State Secretary for Information Technology for Kerala. She has over two decades of professional experience in government. She has held key administrative positions both in the Center and the State and has been Director (Industries) and Secretary (Industries) prior to taking over as the Secretary in the Department of IT in the Government of Kerala, which she has held for the last three years. Kerala. In an interview with Alolita Sharma, she talked about open source software and the role of the government in promoting it.

In this article, the author tracks the progress of adoption of open source software across the world. In search of technologies best suited for their countries, governments around the world are looking into Linux and open source software technologies.

This author writes on the dynamics of the ‘Bazaar’ and the forces and conditions that influence it. The author contends that the Linux ‘Bazaar’ is not simply a loose collection of vendors and other proponents, motivated only by mutual recognition. The ‘Bazaar’ really operates on a larger stage. When forces of the larger stage organize around a dominant restrictive group, a reactionary force is generated in the remaining community. Over time, this reactive force propels various alternatives.