Information Society Watch

October 9, 2006, The Financial Express

The Kerala Government is embarking an a policy directive which makes it mandatory for all state run schools to use open source platform instead of proprietary software. This follows a series of visits by FOSS founder Richard Stallman across the country to promote FOSS as a concept.

2003, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, First Monday

This paper offers arguments and logistical data in favour of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The main contention is that developing countries need to adopt and promote open source software in order to develop local skills and businesses, actively participate in the global ICT economy, and avoid unnecessary expenditure.

May 25, 2006, The Economic Times

This article questions the Indian government’s contradictory practice of advocating the open source ideology in its e-governance projects, while failing to embrace open technology platforms. This article is in favour of open source, specifically because it would reduce cost and provides interoperability.

December 2, 2005, Newsweek

Sam Palmisano, the head of IBM, makes a case for Free and Open Software (FOSS) as one of cornerstones for innovation. Innovation itself is required to stimulate growth and economic development.

January 2005, Manuel Castells, Choike.org

Manuel Castells gets behind the logic, the inspiration, the history, the progress and the future of open source. He contrasts the open source view of property as configured fundamentally around the right to distribute, not to exclude with the typical capitalist view of property as the right to exclude.