FSMI promotes use of free software
The Free Software Movement of India (FSMI), a coalition of 14 organisations in different states, has a mission to create awareness among the computer users for alternative models of computing- using free software.
“There are a lot of free softwares available on internet which can be downloaded for use. Use of these alternative computing is not only cost affective, but also virus protective’, said the general secretary, FSMI, Kiran Chandra.
He along with some other IT professionals of IT were addressing the students in a series of workshops held at different engineering colleges including National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), Degree Engineering College (DEC) of SMIT Group and Khallikote Autonomous College here recently.