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Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
govt of state A decides to use free software to computerise land records. Calls for bids. Company X bags the contract and writes the software using foss platform and foss tools. The government pays for it and gets the code and starts using it. Also issues press releases about what it has done with FOSS. The government becomes owner of the copyright, but the code is not released.
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Part of the problem arises from the lack of specifications for Citizen Centric Services (or whatever eGovernance is called these days). NISG had a charter to draw them up using standards that are based around implementable technologies (which might have been the politically correct way of talking about Open Standards). Unfortunately, that pops the cat out of the hat by proving LandRecords/RTO/EmploymentExchange etc are basically same in each state and thus with small tweaks software can be reused.
:Sankarshan
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