Rahul gives unsolicited advice

I am putting together a talk on FOSS Policy in India. I started DuckDuckGo-ing today morning for the relevant information and I came across a blogpost by the Open Source Observatory on the Indian Government and Open Source . Within that post, I came across the Open Source Software Country Intelligence Report on India published by the EU in 2021. I have been going through the links highlighted in that document, and the links I discovered within those links, and I swear that half of the pages are dead. Either the domains don't exist today (19 May 2024), the domains don't support HTTPS, or the pages don't exist leading to 404. The internet is dying. And I don't know what to do about it. Well, I know one thing that we can do. Especially in the case where internet links are being used in Policy Papers. Use the Wayback Machine and, if possible, financially support the Internet Archive . The Wayback Machine enables you to "save" a website in it's current state ...

The Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India published a draft policy to support and nurtue the unique requirements of Deep Tech startups in India. I just finished reading it and put together a few comments in a FOSS United forum thread . I will probably read it again a week or so later and try to update my comments on the thread with any new insights/thoughts I have.

I spent a good chunk of time a couple of weeks back looking at ZeroMQ and PyZMQ specifically. While I was going through the documentation for the project, I came across the webpage - http://www.imatix.com/ . Not matrix. matix. These are the people who created and opensourced the ZeroMQ project. If you tried clicking on the URL, you should have gotten a "can't reach this page" kinda message. Using the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine , I was able to find the last time the URL directed to a working webpage - https://web.archive.org/web/20190620093511/http://www.imatix.com/ . Side note : That's a very interesting/intriguing webpage because from the looks of it, the webpage is displaying Google Slides. Going further back, I noticed an Editorial link on the webpage - https://web.archive.org/web/20051125213101/http://www.imatix.com/edito.htm . That editorial page has been open on my browser for almost two weeks now and I am happy I finally read it instead of blindly...