In this article, S. Sadagopan, Director of IIIT, Bangalore, explains the importance of open source, a trend that has the gained attention of major industries such as automobile, healthcare and oil and gas. Newer technologies such as the Linux operating system, mySQL (database), Perl (scripting language) and Apache (powering Web servers) have rubbished geographical, cultural and linguistic constraints. Scientific publishing has shifted to the hands of commercial companies, while it was previously dominated by scientific societies. There are only a few societies like IEEE and IEE that are still managed by scholarly professionals.
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