Dear Friends,
Recently I write my view on “Role of Money in Indian Science. It was discussed lot on net and got mix reaction. Today I am writing about another important point “Open source intiatives” or freeware or public domain. Best of my knowledge no big initiative have been taken from India for developing world renowned software (like Linux, GNU); though number of groups have developed freeware including our group . The question arises whether it is due to lack of our expertise (as it requre high level skill) or it is due to our culture. It may be due to lack of infrastructure or resources. I wants to know view of other colleagues.

I also wants to know whether we are in position to initiate mega project on freeware. I wish to know reaction of community whether we are ready for this type of work ( I mean Indians are ready to contribute for public). We are starting one such project CRDD for developing computational resources for drug discovery. May I know view of other members on this project.

Regards

Raghava