IT experts urge open source system

This article from the Himalayan Times sort of reminds me of those commercials with the dentists. You know, where the announcer says that ‘4 out 5 dentists agree that blah, blah, blah’. Well in this case, the same case could be made about IT experts. Apparently a growing number feel that Open Source is truly the way for companies and private citizens to go.

The first day of the conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICT), which is being organised as part of the on-going CAN Infotech—2005 saw papers on Open Source System (OSS) and Information Technology Outsourcing and E-transaction.

The OSS, which is widely practiced in developed countries, is still merely a shadow in Nepal. Paper presenters on OSS stressed on the need to use OSS to discourage piracy of software.

The open source concept provides users access for programming codes so that users can modify software as per needs. This will also help in the development of local IT market, providing job opportunities, speakers opined. Aman Gurung of Nepali Language computing Project, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya said that OSS helps create environment to develop various kinds of researches inside itself.