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To: Shri R Chandrashekar, Secretary IT, secretary at mit.gov.in, | |||
To: Secretary IT, secretary at mit.gov.in, | |||
NASSCOM: chairman at nasscom.in, | NASSCOM: chairman at nasscom.in, | ||
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Subject: Comments on National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance | Subject: Comments on National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance | ||
As members of Palakkad Libre Software Users | Dear Sir, | ||
As members of Palakkad Libre Software Users Society (PLUS | |||
http://plus.sarovar.org), we would like to congratulate the Government | http://plus.sarovar.org), we would like to congratulate the Government | ||
for coming up with a National Policy on Open Standards for | for coming up with a National Policy on Open Standards for | ||
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this great initiative by adding loop holes into the policy to allow | this great initiative by adding loop holes into the policy to allow | ||
patent encumbered and single entity controlled namesake open standards | patent encumbered and single entity controlled namesake open standards | ||
to be showed in. | to be showed in. Section 6.4 of the draft version 2.0 is completely negating the nature of the policy itself. When you have more than one standard in the same domain, it not only increase the effort required to implement all | ||
competing standards, but ensuring perfect interoperability will be | competing standards, but ensuring perfect interoperability will be | ||
near to impossible as there is going to be some loss of information | near to impossible as there is going to be some loss of information | ||
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comments. | comments. | ||
Praveen Arimbrathodiyil, Hiran Venugopalan | Praveen Arimbrathodiyil, Hiran Venugopalan, Santhosh Thottingal | ||
Palakkad Libre Software Users | Palakkad Libre Software Users Society (PLUS) | ||
http://plus.sarovar.org | http://plus.sarovar.org | ||
[http://lists.sarovar.org/pipermail/plus-discuss/2009-July/000893.html Archive of the email] | |||