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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. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    What's better?

    (a) A Free Software project

    or

    (b) Sex with a mare?

  2. Actually, there's some very compelling reasons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    for government to consider Free Software. Here's an essay that says it better than I can.

  3. Re:One of the interesting implications.. by JanusFury · · Score: -1, Troll

    Planet-Source-Code? Rent-a-Coder? Hah, I see through your lies and deception! Give it up you VB script kiddie, we all know you were looking for 'l33t b0x r3wt1ng skr1ptzz'. Your pathetic attemtpts at blending into the slashdot linux community is a failure! Everyone knows that there are actually more coders in america, however they are too intelligent to post code on planet-source-code for people like you to find!

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    using namespace slashdot;
    troll::post();
  4. Oh that's just great by -ryan · · Score: -1, Troll
    ...so not only will we have tons of nunces who don't even own *one* personal computer at home, "vat iz zlashd0t?", purporting to be Oracle "experts" in this country, but now we'll all have to deal with these same New Delhi Tech School non-geeks as our Linux administraitors too! Well hell, I think I'll just switch to Microsoft and go out and hire myself a couple of G0d d4mn3d MCSE's!

    We're all going to hell I tell ya, just going to hell!

  5. Karma whoring Taco BITCH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  6. Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do RedHat also place the West Bank and the Gaza strip under the Isreali flag? Do they even have a Palastinean flag?

  7. Sweet! by r0t · · Score: -1, Troll
    India Population: 1 Billion
    China Population: 1.3 Billion

    2.3 Billion new Linux users over the past year.. pretty sweet!

    The US better get their act together quickly. Otherwise Asia is going have a bunch of computer savy individuals while the US will have a bunch of point and click windoze morons.

  8. please mod down racist humour by fantomas · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod this down please, slashdot. I read this as a pretty crap piece of racist humour. (Our brave anonymous coward original poster is welcome to correct me, I await the response...).