"The Free Software Foundation of India has represented to the Technology bodies of the Government of India that all technology developed through publicly funded research should be available to anyone free of cost so that all manufacturers will have a level playing ground as far as technology is concerned. Since the development has been publicly funded, it is only reasonable that the public gets the benefit out of it. The Government has not responded, nor has this been discussed in any other public forum. But I think this should be a first step."

would be interesting to find out what is the state of public knowledge politics around the world: please add your observations.