BharOS Is Not The First Made-In-India Operating System, More Like The Third, So What’s New?
Summary
But from the Freudian slips of the tongue made by the spokespersons at the launch event, no prizes for guessing this will soon morph into “BharOSa” (trust) in keeping with the current official trend of English acronyms which spell out Hindi words. IIT Madras director Prof V Kamakoti said “This innovative system promises to revolutionise the way users think about security and privacy on their mobile devices”. But remarks made by JandK operations director Karthik Ayyar seemed to suggest that the product was targeted at “organisations that have stringent privacy and security requirements whose users handle sensitive information that requires confidential communications on restricted apps on mobiles”. Also promised was NOTA — Native-Over-The-Air updates and patches, which is not a big deal: most leading handset makers now offer this feature. This is a term used when a developer uses a copy of the source code of a programme or even an operating system to create a new project based on it.