[smc-discuss] [x-post] More good news from TRAI: Adopt open source for connectivity

[Pirate Praveen]

Just after the good news on Net Neutrality, TRAI bats for Free Software.

“I don’t like to comment on a specific product. But India has adopted an
open source policy and open API [application program interface] policy.
The whole objective is that there should not be a situation of a vendor
lock-in,” Ram Sewak Sharma, chairman of TRAI, said in response to a
query about Project Loon’s prospects at the India Digital summit. “This
is because any service cannot be held hostage to a technology,” Mr.
Sharma told the summit, hosted by the Internet and Mobile Association of
India.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/adopt-open-source-for-connectivity-trai/article8215105.ece

We should demand the same for decentralized services as no communication
medium should be help hostage to single companies.

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