Open Source Software

Congratulations to PCQuest ( a cyber media publication) a leading IT Magazine of India for celebrating a glorious 25 years. It reminds me of the olden days of Computer Today, Data Quest and PC Quest, the only Computer Magazines of those days in my best of knowledge. PC Quest came up with an innovative idea by introducing software bundled in 5.25” floppies along with their distribution. In those days no internet facility was there and we had to rely entirely on these magazines. Frankly speaking, these days I hardly read computer magazines in my leisure time and it was a matter of chance only that I purchased PCQuest (as one of the birthday presents for my son who is presently a student of class 7, since it contained a DVD of Games) from one of the prominent Book Stores of Dehradun, namely, BOOKWORLD, whose owner Mr. Randhir Arora has contributed a lot to the field of computers in Uttarakhand as it was then the only Book House in the town which sold the latest IT Magazines/Books keeping us updated about the latest developments and at par with the rest of the modern world. Even in those days we were so well informed in our very own town about the IT activities like it was in the IT hub (of those days) of India Bombay (Now Mumbai) and New Delhi . I still remember, it was these magazines only which provided me with the finest software tools like Clipper (not just dbase compiler) and Turbo Pascal (a super speed compiler integrated with intelligent Text editor, much better then Microsoft Text Editor). I had used these languages/packages in my IT career for a period of about fifteen years.

This edition of Feb’2012 excited me to a very great extent as it focused exclusively on “Migrating to Open Source”, and I have been a part of this movement for the past 12 years. On the other hand I was a little dejected to see the popularization of the term “Open Source”, which is misleading the younger IT generation. For what concerns me is that at least some emphasize should be laid on the term “FREE Software” (here FREE should not be considered as Zero Cost) which reflects software freedom or liberal Software. It is just not a term “FREE”, it is the whole philosophy on so called Open Source Software.

Yes sometimes I do think that “Open Source Software” is the right term for Indians, as here in India FREE word does not suit the Bureaucrats, who today are virtually ruling India as they are guiding in framing the IT policies, which has discouraged and damaged the Open Source Software Industry. And that’s why it may be one of the reasons that India is still very backward in producing Software Products. Furthermore you will not even find any open source product/projects coming from India.

Thanks to the private sectors for bringing the name of India in IT world, by just focusing on IT service Industry, where no research and innovations are required. This too reflects the Indian IT Education curriculum.
 

- Sharad Kukreti

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