Free and open source software is fast taking on licenced software giants worldover, and in India too, it is catching the fancy of IT industry.
“The war is already brewing between software majors and proponents of open source and free software, which is becoming popular in developing countries, where high costs of the proprietory software is the major cause of rampant piracy,” says a new book Open Source and the Law by legal counsel Priti Suri.
The worldwideweb is the most successful example of open software.
The Indian Institutes of Technology use open source software for research; and the government is o promoting its use in education and financial services and multiple e-governance projects, says Suri. >>>>>
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