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Indian Government Goes For Free Software
Geekonomical writes "Economic Times has an article that says Indian Government's Department of IT is going to encourage Linux and OSS on all fronts including college education! The article has more details (eventhough it has a misleading title!) The reasoning being more of plain economics than security or other reasons."
The Indian government is indeed a progressive one.
Compare to China, the Indian makes rocket 12 times cheaper. China, on the other hand, is still boasting to the world how "cheap" and "reliable" their rockets are.
Unlike China, the Indian government is brave enough to officially embrace Open Source. China, on the other hand, has largely abandoned their "open source push" due to Bill Gates intervention (allowing the use of pirated copies of MS-Windows and MS-Office on PRC government computers).
The future belongs to India. Not China.
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
What are you talking about? I'm using Mozilla 1.1 on Debian, and the linked article renders fine. Of course, the Times of India is one of the worst of the world's papers, so "fine" is a relative term...
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While I am enjoying solving real problems for businesses using .NET, most of you are stuck in the quicksand of figuring out what distribution of Linux to use and what user interface you are using and getting comfort that a successful capitalistic company (no denying that it's far from perfect) might have problems. Did it ever occur to you jokers that the most successful software companies - Microsoft and IBM - are OUTSIDE of the Silicon Valley? Thank you again for being leftist socialist anti-capitalists (excuse the redundancies) - there's lots less competition. Rant on!