FOSSManifesto

Ankit.V.Nevatia

Baroda(gujrat)

GV Dasarathi

Bangalore

Cadem Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Kartik Mistry

Ahmedabad

Sudev Barar

Faridbada 121001

K Raghu Prasad

Navi Mumbai

Vinay Raghavan K S

Mysuru

Shashi Rekha

bangalore

Niveditha Menon

Bangalore

sahil dave

Delhi

University School of IT, GGSIPU

Varun Thacker

Kolkata

Arun SAG

Sivakasi

We strongly support foss

Mepco schlenk Engineering college

suyash

Manipal

Manipal Institute of Technology

Gurumurthy Kasinathan

Bangalore

IT for Change

Santhosh Thottingal

Palakkad

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing

Roshni Nuggehalli

Bangalore

IT for Change

Sameer

Manipal

LUG,Manipal

Akshay Kothari

Manipal

MIT,Manipal

Sandip Chakraborty

Kolkata

I think the petition is good, and FOSS should be spread everywhere.....

Department of Information Technology,Jadavpur University,Kolkata

Siddhesh Poyarekar

Pune

Red Hat

ashish

new delhi

promote FOSS...!!

USIT. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Gurteshwar Singh

New Delhi

Pay serious attention!

Sandeep Mukherjee

Kolkata

keshav

New Delhi

I appreciate your step and fully agrees with your view.

Computerware

Sunayana

delhi

Mehul Ved

Mumbai

Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury

Durgapur

This is a great step and I fully support it.

NIT Durgapur

Viswanath Durbha

Bangalore

In my humble opinion, this manifesto clearly articulates the reasons why FOSS should be encouraged and practiced in India and the benefits to our community will be immense.

sriram g

Durgapur

Open source software is a real boon to the nation.

NIT durgapur

Aamod Nerurkar

Vasai, Mumbai

Robin Paul

Delhi

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Vivek Arya

Delhi

USIT (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

Joerg (kital) Simon

Stuttgart, Germany

Fedora Project

Anand Chitipothu

Bangalore

Software developed as part of any pubic funded project must be open-source and use FOSS tools to avoid vendor lock-in.

openlibrary.org

suresh

new delhi

university school of information technology (usit)

Siddhesh Poyarekar

Pune

Siddharth Srivastava

New Delhi

Great work. I would like to help in this motive by any means

University School of Information Technology

Sudhir Gandotra

New Delhi

India deserves and needs Open standards and Open source movement. Linux should become the official OS of the country and simultaneously MS needs to be banned alltogether. This is crucial for the development of the country and its educationsl (which is basics) infrastructure (including the independent mind). Any Government, worth its name, should think of India first and the interest of MNCs. This is possible only if alternative politics grows. Humanist Party of India is working to achieve this and assures the complete implementation of Open standards of Linux when it reaches the decisive position.

Humanist Party of India

Gaurav Paliwal

Delhi

USIT

Sandeep

Mumbai

I agree

Narendra Sisodiya

Delhi

Sajan Venniyoor

New Delhi

Community Radio Forum

Varsha Jaikumar

Durgapur

National Institute of Technology

Subadra Panchanadeswaran

New York, USA

Adelphi University School of Social Work

Raghunandan Hegde

Bangalore

Lajpat Dhingra

Mumbai

Happy to see that we are forming this forum. I would be keen to work with those in education sector who want to adopt Free Software.

Comet Media Foundation

Chandita Mukherjee

Mumbai

Good we have started this! Let me know how I could help.

Comet Media Foundation

Raghunandan Hegde

Bangalore

Anivar Aravind

Bangalore/Thrissur

Moving republic , Swathanthra malayalam computing

Balemarthy Vamsi Krishna

Bangalore

Robert Bosch

Kushal Das

Ukhra, West Bengal

Vikram Vincent

Bangalore

Swatantra.Org / Free Software Movement Karnataka

jaykumar

Bangalore

FOSS is the key to free knowledge and free society

free software movement karnataka

Prakash

Mumbai

Humble request to use FOSS as a central part of the IT, e-government and education plans. FOSS is key for the development of a developing country like in INDIA

Red Hat

Smita Deb

Kolkata

Santanu Dutt

Mumbai

Gejo Paul

Mumbai

GNU/Lnux Consultant

satish kale

Mumbai

This is how it should be.....

Gejo Paul

Mumbai

GNU/Lnux Consultant

Shakthi Kannan

Hyderabad

Free Software for the people.

Chowde Gowda

Bangalore

Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd.

Akash Garg

New Delhi

Chowde Gowda

Bangalore

Debarshi Ray

Kolkata

Fedora, GNU

Shivanand V Edrami

Bangalore

DeepRoot Linux

Debayan Banerjee

Durgapur, West Bengal

This manifesto is vital to set up a solid support framework for FOSS in the nation.

GNU/Linux Users' Group, NIT Durgapur

Arun Eapen

Thiruvananthapuram

Red Hat

J. T. D'souza

Mumbai

The use of open and unencumbered standards is vitally important when storing public data. The life of this data is a minimum of 6 years and a maximum of infinite. Typically tax records need to be stored for six years, education records for a lifetime (70 yrs?) and land records for several generations. The average life of a software program is about six years for small systems and 10 years for large systems. http://www.graco.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tamai/pub/icsm92.pdf. Thus using closed formats will render these electronic documnets un useable. It's called bitrot. Further the used of encumbered or closed formats by government forces citizens to buy software to access government data. This is akin to the government using public money to promote a private Company's product, something which must be avoided at all costs.

Imran

Kolkata

Suparna Diwakar

Bangalore

bijoy

Bangalore

senthil s

bangalore

FOSS is vital for our knowledge soverignity .

Free Software Movement, Karnataka

Tintu Daniel

Pune

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Red Hat, Inc.

Abhas Abhinav

Bangalore

DeepRoot Linux

Jane Gabriel

Mumbai

Red Hat India

Venkatesh Hariharan

Mumbai

IndLinux.org, Knowledge Commons

Aishwarya Madineni

Bnagalore

IT for Change

vinay sreenivasa

Bangalore

ITfC

Leena

Bangalore

IT for Change

DR K SARATHCHANDRAN

NEW DELHI

it's a great initiative!

SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE, DHAULAKUAN

Nagarjuna G.

Mumbai

Let us fight till right to read (interpret) and write (create) cultural assets becomes a birth right! or at least a constitutional right!

Free Software Foundation India

joney

kannur

it s very convenient

vinayaka

Kusha Gowda.

Bangalore/Manikyanahalli

R V College of engineering

Krishna Pagadala

Bay Area, USA

Tanmoy Bhaumik

Burdwan

I agree

Infosys

Sajana Jayaraj

Thane, Maharashtra

Devananda Guptha S A

Bangalore, Karnataka

very good

R V College of Engineering

Suman

Bangalore

RV College Of engineering

R V Raghavednra Rao

Visakhapatnam

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti

Harshal

Bangalore

SUN Microsystems

Shyam K

Malappuram

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing

Shivaraj Kattimani

Bangalore

R.V College of Engineering

Rajeesh

Kerala

Freedom comes with a price. It is worth it, because Freedom is priceless!

renuka prasad

Bengaluru

FOSS contributes to advancement of human knowledge. Also adopting and promoting FOSS will make people understand about their freedom and responsibilities towards society which many have forgotten

R.V.College of Engineering

Aditya M

Bangalore

Indian Institute of Science

V. Sasi Kumar

Thiruvananthapuram

Jestin Joy

Kottayam

College of Engineering Chengannur

Rohit Gupta

Kalyani

FOSS is the need of Present.

Kalyani Government Engineering college

Hari K T

Calicut

If letters were not discovered you may have not spoken or written . You gain knowledge from others. So make a give and take policy . Don't try to hide it. You may have hide it , but one day the world will recognise . You are not only the genius , others too recognise it Welcome FOSS http://www.harikt.com

Santhosh Kumar

Chennai

IIT Madras

manoj k

thrissur

vidya engg collage,thalakottukara

bitthal khaitan

Kolkata

Techno India College of Technology

Gurpreet Singh Bhatia

New Delhi

That's a very good move, it will surely boost the use of open technologies and more people will realize that how beneficial it is. And the biggest step will be this one. </p>

Chandan GN

Mysore

University of Mysore

kashyap g.j

Chennai

This is a very good step in fostering FOSS in government sector</p>

IIT Madras

Vimalkumar

Chennai

The claims made in this document must be formally cited. Otherwise, it's a good petition and I hope FOSS grows.

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

P. J. Jose

Mysore

Bhabha Atomic Research Center

DEEPIKA GULIANI

DELHI

UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Abhinav Sahai

Bangalore

This is a very good step for something which needs immediate attention especially from the non-technical fraternity.</p> <p>thanks for doing this</p>

Vinay

Bangalore

Bejoy K Thomas

Bangalore/Kottayam

Amit bhardwaj

New Delhi

Subhash Kumar

New Delhi

Adoption of FOSS has the wherewithal to bridge the digital divide, especially in developing countries.</p>

Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi

Manish Dwibedy

New Delhi

USIT, GGSIPU

Akshay Sharma

Twin Cities, MN

OSS

Animesh Kumar

New Delhi

Acharya Narendra Dev College, Delhi University

Abhishek Nandakumar

New Delhi

Acharya Narendra Dev College

Amogh Akshintala

Bangalore

FOSS would be a great cost cutter for the government. and this proposal will help us understand the minds of our politicians to see how knowledgeable they are with current technology. </p>

MC Arunan

Mumbai

sophia college

Savithri Singh

New Delhi

This is important for our country.</strong></em></p>

Acharya Narendra Dev College

Akarsh Simha

Chennai

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Gaurav Khambhala

Bangalore

DeepRoot Linux

Subin Jose

Chennai

satyaakam goswami

Indirapuram , Ghaziabad

satyaakam.net</p>

RUKMINI VEMRAJU

NEW DELHI

Access to knowledge can become widespread and meaningful only when it is free and open , in letter and spirit. I support in compeltely.</p>

COMMONWEALTH EDUCATIONAL EMDIA CENTRE FOR ASIA

Sridhar Raman

Bangalore

Mapunity

Devendra Laulkar

Pune

Hardik Dalwadi

Bangalore, India

Canonical Ltd.

Hardik Dalwadi

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

dhiraj

delhi

Jayanth Bagare

Bangalore

I believe that FOSS is the only way to avoid corruption and bureaucracy in India, and hence I'm signing in for this.

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd

Prakash Iyer

Bangalore

Wipro Limited

NITHIN SHUBHANAND

Bangalore

i agree with this

Sambhram Institiute Of Technology

Suhas V

Bangalore

RVCE

Ubiquity

Ubiquitous

Anusha Kadambala

Mumbai

Comet Media Foundation

Abhijit Nadgouda

Mumbai

Full on support for FOSS in India. It will not only help us stay abreast of the recent developments but also help promote open standards and hence operations without getting locked-in with a vendor.

Chandrabhanu Manoj

Bangalore

R.V.C.E

purnateja

Bengaluru

East West Institute of Tech

veena

moradabad

one should encourage the FOSS for the real development of the personality of an individual without any dependence

Navodaya vidyalaya school kalewala thakurdwara moradabad

Vineeth Surendranath

Dresden(Germany)/Bangalore(India)

Naveen Chandran

Bangalore

DeepRoot Linux Pvt. Ltd.

Kundan Kumar

Bangalore

RVCE, Bangalore

Bhupendra Raut

Pune

Use of open source software will create talent pool for the future FOSS based IT industry.

University of Pune

Joe Athialy

New Delhi

Adithi Rao

Bangalore

MV Srinivasan

New Delhi

NCERT

Nidhin

Bangalore

subhan

Bangalore

karthik c

Bangalore

EOS Software Systems

sumanth gopal

singapore

Leena Mulye

Bangalore, Karnataka

ITfC

Ashwini Bharadwaj

Bangalore

Vasanth Kumar

Bangalore

Sona

Bangalore, Karnataka

Good effort

ITfC

Vivek Vaidyanathan

Bangalore

Rajesh Khindri

Bhopal, India

Eklavya

leela jayanth

chennai

Sreenivasa Guptha

Bangalore

continental engineers and contractors

Chabndrashekhar B

Bangalore

RV College of Engg

S Sreehari

Bangalore

Provide quality education for free of cost upto 10th standard.

pratapaditya singh

bangalore

I strongly support this petetion as it is time to awake and stand for betterment of our tomorrow

RVCE

Rajesh Khindri

Bhopal

Eklavya

Indrani Dey

Mumbai

Yogeshkumar

Chennai

helpful for the developers to know about the latest technology only in FOSS will be easily to update

Free Lancer

Dr. Sanjeeta Rani

New Delhi

Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi

MadhusudanCS

Bangalore

Save India from clutches of cheap minded, profit-only minded Proprietary Software vendors.

B M S College of Engineering

Srinivas Murthy G R

Mysore

Dr. Gita Mathur

New Delhi

Important for the progress of our country. FOSS gives freedom as well as saves money. Fit perfectly for our democracy.

Gargi College, University of Delhi.

Ashok Kumar

Bengaluru

R V College of Engineering

VIKRAM RAGHAVENDRA DESAI

Bangalore

Nokia Siemens Networks

Harshith Bhat

Bangalore

R.V. College of Engineering

K.Arvind

Bengaluru

Please promote free software, as its good both for the people and the systems

sriram chaudhury

Hyderabad

I support it.

IIIT- Hyderabad

Dr. Sarita Kumar

New Delhi

Great step and initiative. Direly needed for India.

Acharya Narendra Dev College

Shashidhar

Bangalore

I agree to above contents what

RVCE

Riyaz Usman

Hyderabad

Infosys Technologies Ltd

Pasupuleti Sreenivas`

Bangalore

PES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Sandhya A Jakkannavar

Bangalore

It must be included in syllabus

R V College of engineering

anju uppal

Ambernath

media matters

Arun MR

Trivandrum

Pinkul Goyal

Mainpuri

E.M.Muralidharan

Peechi, Thrissur, Kerala

Kerala Forest Research Institute

S.Chandrasekharan Nair

Trivandrum/Vilavoorkal

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community has published a manifesto requesting Indian political parties to make FOSS usage and promotion a central part of the IT, e-government and education plans. FOSS is a powerful enabler for spreading education and opportunity to all peoples. With its collaborative knowledge model, FOSS can effect change and transparency in India. Supporting this petition is one small step in the right direction.

Farmer

Indumathi S

Bangalore

RVCE

Krishnan Subramanian

Seattle

sverre bolstad

bergen, norway

Harsh Busa

Bombay

Sukla Sen

Mumbai

Haridas KPN

Bangalore

Kalki Communication Technologies

Ankur Gupta

Meerut

MIET Meerut

Prashant

Bangalore

ALF

Tapas Ray

Newark, DE, USA

I wholeheartedly endorse this appeal. The other signatories have said more or less all there is to say, but here are a couple of thoughts: I feel that FOSS needs to be promoted in the broader social context of the "global justice movement" (GJM). Normalization / naturalization - which Pramod has noted for proprietary software - is one of the main functions of any ideology, and the struggle over ideology is essential for any real change. Therefore, the normalization of proprietary software needs to be challenged before the lay person, just as the GJM is challenging "normal" globalization with slogans like "another world is possible". In other words, in addition to the government being urged to adopt FOSS, people like me, who have been conditioned to think of Windows when they think of computers, need to be told that this is a conditioned response, not a natural / normal one.

University of Delaware

A. Prabhala

Bangalore

Niki Konstantinou

London

Public Software for Public Sector

Harsh Kapoor

--

South Asia Citizens Web (www.sacw.net)

anil

mumbai

agrocom

Prakash Advani

Mumbai

Mahatama Gandhi sacrificed his life for freedom. Today software is the new age economic power and by using Open Source, India can benefit from the freedom that it offers over proprietary software.

Canonical

Saurabh Sharma

New Delhi

Great move,one should come up in the support.

Piyush Kumar

Gurgaon

agreed !

http://piyush.me

Suseelan B Sarin

Thrissur

Thinvent Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Jasbir S Khehra

Patiala

Its high time India stops being a M$ code monkey

Sudha Rajagopalan

Chennai

Pramod P

Chennai

Most of the government sites require IE/Windoze to display properly, this gives the lay users the wrong notion that this is the Digital, or Online way of doing things. This should change. FOSS is the ideal solution for a developing nation like India. Knowledge is to be shared. The Kerala State IT Mission has received laurels from far and wide for its efforts to promote OSS. This should be a model for other states and for the country

SCM Microsystems (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Yadu Rajiv

Trivandrum

+1 can't agree more!!

SUBID

Kerala

SUBID

Kerala

Adarsh VK

Mayyanad,Kollam

Ravindran Sriramachandran

New York

Columbia University

Sarath Babu M G

CSRD,SSS- I, JNU

Follow "KERALA MODEL IT POILCY" http://www.kerala.gov.in/annualprofile/it_07.pdf

J.N.U

Nabanita Phukan

Mumbai

I sincerely support this initiative.

Red Hat

Omshivaprakash H L

Bangalore

Sanchaya.net , Linuxaayana.net

Deepank Gupta

Delhi

NSIT

R.Padmini

Bangalore, India

this is an imperative - we should join together to fight for FOSS

Alolita Sharma

San Francisco

Open source technologies are powerful enablers for spreading education and opportunity to all peoples. Open source with its collaborative knowledge model can effect change and transparency in India. Supporting this petition is one small step in the right direction.

Open Source Initiative (OSI)

Richard Victor Correia

Vasai

Florix Software Solutions

Baishampayan Ghose

Mumbai, India

S R Nayak

Bengalooru

I do agree with the statements

RVCE, Bangalore

Dinesh Shah

Mumbai

India has a long tradition of shared knowledge. FOSS is just reinvention of this tradition. We Indians always have shared our knowledge with world, being Ayurveda, Astronomy, Mathematics, Yoga and many other fields. The Indian Society had to pay heavy price when that knowledge started becoming closed in Brahminical system. We must learn from our past mistakes and adopt FOSS culture not only in IT but other fields as well.

Shah Micro System

Amitakhya Phukan

Dibrugarh, Assam

Red Hat

Nishant Saini

Hisar, Haryana

Shashi Kumar Unni

Mumbai

Open Source is the way to go ahead. We need to get this down to school level so that kids start learning about OSS and use them in their day to day life.

Red Hat

naren

trichy

good effort..

Arun Kumar Khan

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Great initiative. Given that many of the Govt. e-portals require IE/Windows combination, on the client side, to do transactions, we need to make all the departments aware of the FOSS alternatives and adherence to Open Standards.

Anand Bellan Raman

Bangalore

This is the only way to bridge the digital divide. Shared knowledge propels the whole society forward and Open Source can drive innovation. This is very necessary for our country.

Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd.,

Anand B R

Bangalore

Deep Patel

Baroda

Red Hat

Sudha M

Bangalore

I strongly support this movement. This movement should reach every corner of the country to create awareness. Universities/Educational institutions will definately be the right place to start with.

RVCE

Vijayalakshmi.M.N

bangalore

Deepak

Mumbai

We need to focus on it, lets innovate and create and I too support open ended softwares

Deepak

Mumbai

We need to focus on it, lets innovate and create and I too support open ended softwares

Khushbu Mohta

Delhi

Krishna Engineering College Ghaziabad UP

Leena

Bangalore

IT for Change

Jaisen Nedumpala

Kozhikode

A garg

Mumbai

Open Source software is the key to faster development of IT services industry

Mithlesh Bhagat

Bangalore

Foss is only solution for SMES' IT requirements

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Abhijit A M

Pune

FOSS is not only about Freedom but Equality also.

College of Engineering, Pune. Uncode(Lokayat), Pune.