From the pages of Deccan Herald this morning.

I sincerely hope that they don’t end up writing a new MTA just for made-in-india bragging rights to power ‘imail’.

In fact, the default method of hosting email was indeed to self-host it using libre software. Libre Software is as indigenous as it gets.

IIMA and IISc used to host their email themselves (ie. ‘imail’ by default) but use Google and Microsoft respectively today. This is a significant regression.

It not only eliminates the skills needed to build, maintain and sustain such infrastructure but also limits innovation (because people are no longer ‘scratching their own itch’) and discourages research in such domains because they are now designated “somebody else’s problem”.

How are the same people now going to build ‘imail’?