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Indian Government Goes For Free Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-billion-plus dept.

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."

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  1. Answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Keep your anti-semitic propaganda out of here!

    There is not and never has been a Palestinian state and Israel has the right to do whatever is necessary to protect her citizens from the hordes of rabid muslim terrorists.

  2. Hooray for India ! by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait



    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.

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    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
  3. totem pole by master_p · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Imagine a totem pole of Linus Torvalds and Indians dancing the rain thing around him! ...ohh sorry, you meant Indians of India!!

  4. A good thing. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: -1, Flamebait



    Whatever pre-occupies India into paying attention to their own problems versus bringing their problems over here to America is a good thing. Yeah, I know, it sounds terrible, and massively politically incorrect. But the fact is, there are more people in India taking away American jobs than there are Americans taking away Indian jobs. That means our economy suffers as a result, since money is hemmoraghing out of the country in buckets.

    Most of us with skills are getting fairly tired of being replaced by a sixpack of Hindus at every turn. Before you rail on me for being "racist", which of course, some of you will..... Feel free to give me one example where 6 Indian IT workers were replaced with one outsourced American IT worker. It aint gonna happen.

    (Insert the obligatory "one of my best friends is from India" remark here, which is true.)

    Cheers,

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    Bowie J. Poag

    1. Re:A good thing. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: -1, Flamebait



      If what you say is true, we should llet them build their own economy, instead of becoming parasitic to ours.

      With all the money leaving this country, its no wonder the entire IT industry is tanking. I cant help but feel that most of the major players in the industry are farming out their labor under the guise of "American employees arent as loyal", which is horseshit. Its kinda hard to be loyal to a company thats willing to replace you with a six pack of hindus the instant somebody upstairs decides you're not worth the price to keep. Its self-perpetuating. The more companies outsource to India, the less loyalty employees have, the more companies feel they're justified in outsourcing to India. Absolute and total horseshit.

      I'll tell you this much... The dot-com shakeout is over with. All the fruitcakes with pierced eyebrows are back working at Starbucks where they belong. The industry is creating its own problems by continuing this stupid-ass outsourcing trend. Sure, productivity increases, but quality suffers enormously. Besides, what the hell good is it to outsource when you can't hold the people on the other side of the planet accountable for their mistakes, and ontop of it, you're plunging a knife into the vast majority of workers employed at your company?

      Absolutely stupid!

      Cheers,

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      Bowie J. Poag

  5. Re:Ironic by quinto2000 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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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    Ceci n'est pas un post
  6. Thank you slashdotties by iggye · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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!

  7. Re:few Linux inroads in India yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Virtually none of the people I spoke to had had any Linux exposure, let alone Linux experience.

    Yet it magically shows up on all their @#!$* H-1B resumes.

  8. Shut up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nigger.