[Ilugc] Open Source now in political domain

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Mar 15 04:18:11 IST 2009


senthilraja P wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/mar/14/loksabhapoll-bjp-to-promote-free-open-software.htm
> 
> While i do not want to bring politics here, i would like to highlight the
> amount of awareness that the above news could bring in.  If other political
> parties follow the same announcement, then open source will get a boost.
> 
> Already some of the political leaders are using open source to great
> extent.  For example, in www.lkadvani.in joomla and  wordpress is used.  And
> they are using phplist for the mailing list too.
> 
> Do any one have info on how other political leaders are using open source?

http://osindia.blogspot.com/2009/03/bjps-it-vision-supports-open-source-and.html

Rahul


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