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Free Software Foundation of India, was formed in 2001 to promote the use and development of free software in India. Some of the state governments, notably Kerala and Tamil Nadu [ 6 ] created policies on the use of Free Software in state level organizations and launched ambitions projects like IT@School , Elcot OpenSuse migration. [ 7 ]
The Free Software Foundation of India (FSFI) is the Indian sister organisation to the US-based Free Software Foundation. It was founded in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) (the capital of Kerala) in 2001 [2] as a non-profit Company. [3] The FSFI advocates to promote the use and development of free software in India.
Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) is a national coalition of various regional and sectoral free software movements operating in different parts of India. The formation of FSMI was announced in the valedictory function of the National Free Software Conference - 2010 held in Bangalore during 20–21 March 2010. [1]
The Government of Kerala, India, announced its official support for Free/Open-Source software in its State IT Policy of 2001. [6] This was formulated after the first-ever free-software conference in India, "Freedom First!", held in July 2001 in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala, where Richard Stallman inaugurated the Free Software Foundation of India. [7]
The latest version of this Free/Open Source Software, BOSS GNU/Linux v6.0, was released on March 4, 2015. This software supports eighteen Indian languages out of a total of twenty-two constitutionally recognized languages in India at the desktop level.
International Center for Free and Opensource Software – founded 2011; an autonomous organization set up by the Government of Kerala, India for free and open source software. International Open Source Network (IOSN) – existed 2004–2006; promoted use of open-source software in Asia.
The free software movement is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedoms to run, study, modify, and share copies of software. [1] [2] Software which meets these requirements, The Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software, is termed free software.
Free Software Movement Karnataka (FSMK) is a non-profit organization working for spreading free software [1] and its ideals. [2] The movement is inspired by software freedom visionaries like Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen. FSMK is one of the member organizations of Free Software Movement of India. [3]