The government has announced open source policy which is applicable to all Government organizations under the Central Governments and those State Governments.
Key highlights of government’s open source policy include:
– All future Requests for Proposals (RFPs) of eGovernance projects shall include a mandatory clause for considering Open Source Software (OSS) as a preferred option in comparison to Closed Source Software (CSS). Suppliers shall provide justification for exclusion of OSS in their response. - Government Organizations shall ensure compliance with this requirement and decide by comparing both OSS and CSS options with respect to capability, strategic control, scalability,security, life time costs and support requirements.
– GoI shall establish suitable support mechanism for the available OSS that includes Institutional Mechanism, Partnership with Industry, Academia and OSS Community. You can download it from -
http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/policy_on_adoption_of_oss.p...
The government has announced open source policy which is applicable to all
Government organizations under the Central Governments and those State Governments.
Key highlights of government’s open source policy include:
– All future Requests for Proposals (RFPs) of eGovernance projects shall include a mandatory clause for considering Open Source Software (OSS) as a preferred option in comparison to Closed Source Software (CSS). Suppliers shall provide justification for exclusion of OSS in their response.
- Government Organizations shall ensure compliance with this requirement
and decide by comparing both OSS and CSS options with respect to capability, strategic control, scalability,security, life time costs and support requirements.
– GoI shall establish suitable support mechanism for the available OSS that includes Institutional Mechanism, Partnership with Industry, Academia and OSS Community.
Dear All,
I afraid, the clause-7 (Exception) may can easily mis-used by organizations influenced by $MS like preparatory software companies.
Clause 7 :Exception -
"However, in certain specialised domains where OSS solutions meeting essential functional requirements may not be available or in case of urgent / strategic need to deploy CSS based solutions or lack of expertise (skill set) in identified technologies, the concerned Government Organization may consider exceptions, with sufficient justification."
And I doubt, are we really lacking expertise and skillset, to identify the right Open-Source alternatives and implement it ?
You can download it from -
http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/policy_on_adoption_of_oss.p...
-- Siji Sunny
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
I afraid, the clause-7 (Exception) may can easily mis-used by organizations influenced by $MS like preparatory software companies.
Clause 7 :Exception -
"However, in certain specialised domains where OSS solutions meeting essential functional requirements may not be available or in case of urgent / strategic need to deploy CSS based solutions or lack of expertise (skill set) in identified technologies, the concerned Government Organization may consider exceptions, with sufficient justification."
And I doubt, are we really lacking expertise and skillset, to identify the right Open-Source alternatives and implement it ?
+1. Exceptions - a wonderful way to by pass the "mandate" and let your favorite vendor define the tender content. Most babus, even if they have the technical knowledge, are prone to get the tender writing job "done" by a willing body.
-- Arun Khan
Dear Siji and group, As a part of Government system, I defer with common assumption of favoring to CSS in Government setup every often by exercising the exception clause. As the commitment for the OSS by the individual who has some awareness of Open source will always support the solution. Probably my general opinion of the OSS solution support may be clarified that the support for OSS systems is either expensive or nil, there is way out to carry out things on your own by way of online guideline data but this will be a challenging task as not all of the users or the experts if any are conversant with such practice. Hope you will understand the spirit behind the same. We may try to arrange to develop such skill set by way of involving the interested Government representatives like me, IT students and general citizen interested for the same. Regards, DulangeS.09819294898.
On Monday, 30 March 2015 5:38 PM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com wrote:
The government has announced open source policy which is applicable to all
Government organizations under the Central Governments and those State Governments.
Key highlights of government’s open source policy include:
– All future Requests for Proposals (RFPs) of eGovernance projects shall include a mandatory clause for considering Open Source Software (OSS) as a preferred option in comparison to Closed Source Software (CSS). Suppliers shall provide justification for exclusion of OSS in their response.
- Government Organizations shall ensure compliance with this requirement
and decide by comparing both OSS and CSS options with respect to capability, strategic control, scalability,security, life time costs and support requirements.
– GoI shall establish suitable support mechanism for the available OSS that includes Institutional Mechanism, Partnership with Industry, Academia and OSS Community.
Dear All,
I afraid, the clause-7 (Exception) may can easily mis-used by organizations influenced by $MS like preparatory software companies.
Clause 7 :Exception -
"However, in certain specialised domains where OSS solutions meeting essential functional requirements may not be available or in case of urgent / strategic need to deploy CSS based solutions or lack of expertise (skill set) in identified technologies, the concerned Government Organization may consider exceptions, with sufficient justification."
And I doubt, are we really lacking expertise and skillset, to identify the right Open-Source alternatives and implement it ?
You can download it from -
http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/policy_on_adoption_of_oss.p...
-- Siji Sunny
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