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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. 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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