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The Sunday edition of the Economic Times here in India, has a column by Nandu Pradhan, President and MD, Red Hat, titled Open Source is democratising knowledge. He talks of Linux as an example of the tremendous benefits of collaborative knowledge, shares how Linux is being employed in India, and draws a parallel to its development in India with other traditions of knowledge like yoga and ayurveda - free and open to all. Abundance in its true form! Some excerpts: "Enterprises across India have also been quick to realise
the benefits of open source despite the enourmous amounts of FUD (fear,
uncertainity and doubt) that proprietary vendors have sought to create.
Today, enterprises like LIC, IDBI, IRCTC, IndiaBulls, UTI Bank, Canara
Bank, CESC and others use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other open
source software to run their mission critical applications. The SMS
voting backbone for highly popular TV shows like Kaun Banega Crorepati
and Indian Idol also run on Red Hat Enteprise Linux." "It is no surprise that Linux and open source software have caught on rapidly in India. Our traditions of knowledge like yoga and ayurveda have always been free and open to all. We have successfuly built commercial models have been built on top of free knowledge as can be seen from the proliferation of Ayurvedic spas and the fact that yoga is a $30 billion industry in the US. Open source proves that the age old adage that we all grow richer by sharing knowledge still holds true in the Internet era. For decision makers who are implementing IT, it is time to take a long hard look at the long term benefits of open source and evaluate the value it provides on servers and desktops."9:09:03 PM  comment [] trackback []
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