FOSS United's Public Policy Initiatives
summary
FOSS United documents a concrete record: it helps secure a national Open Standards policy (royalty-free), defeats Microsoft’s OOXML push in India by mobilizing media and a BIS committee, and shows large projects — Aadhaar GST UPI run on open source — scale to national load with commodity hardware. Current work targets software patents (ongoing threat), an open tech strategy with Takshashila, advising PM advisory bodies and patent offices, plus practical fixes for procurement (create a GEM brand/category for open source and register platforms like Moodle so small OSS service providers can sell to government).
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chapters (7)
- 0:00FOSS and policy journey
- 2:35India’s open source policy
- 7:35Open Standards vs Microsoft OOXML
- 13:13Implementing open source policies
- 15:43Institutions for FOSS advocacy
- 17:47Public policy advocacy lessons
- 19:01Q&A on state policies
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