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The latest version of this Free/Open Source Software, BOSS GNU/Linux v10.0, was released on 18 March 2024. [8] This software supports eighteen Indian languages out of a total of twenty-two constitutionally recognized languages in India at the desktop level. [9]
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 ]
Shyam Sundar Goenka was running a company that supplied raw materials and machine parts to plants and textile mills in southern and eastern India. Unable to find software that could manage his books of accounts, he asked his son, Bharat Goenka, 23, a Maths graduate [ 7 ] to create a software application that would handle financial accounts for ...
Free software advocates strongly believe that this methodology is biased by counting more vulnerabilities for the free software systems, since their source code is accessible and their community is more forthcoming about what problems exist as a part of full disclosure, [39] [40] and proprietary software systems can have undisclosed societal ...
The Electronics Committee also known as the "Bhabha Committee" created a 10-year (1966–1975) plan laying the foundation for India's IT Service Industries. [10] The industry was born in Mumbai in 1967 with the establishment of Tata Consultancy Services [11] who in 1977 partnered with Burroughs which began India's export of IT services. [12]
This is a category of articles relating to free software for making or viewing Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. That is, software which can be freely used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed by everyone that obtains a copy. Typically, this means software which is distributed with a free software license, and whose source code ...