{This talk was to be delivered in the convention held on 26-28 December 2008 in Calcutta by the Institute for Open Technology and Applications, a society formed under Department of Information Technology, Government of West Bengal (IOTA) to create awareness to create awareness in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). However due to unavoidable circumstances it could not be done but was circulated in the convention.}
We, at the Allahabad High Court, not only use but advocate open source software (OSS) and open formats. Many raise the question,
'Why is it so? Why do you do it?'
