Indian Government Chooses Linux for Academia

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 14, 2002 @10:15AM from the and-introducing-the-gnu-utilities dept.

Nilesh Chaudhari writes "Following the footsteps of various governments around the world, the Indian Government has decided to standardize on Linux and open source software for academic purposes. The Department of Information Technology says, 'As a first step we are persuading all government institutions to offer courses on Linux and programming for Linux environment. We would also set up Linux Resource Centres in academic institutes (with co-funding from government and industry).' Going by the high targets they have set for mass adoption of IT, this is a step in the absolute right direction."

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Re:Language by foistboinder · 2002-10-14 10:52 · Score: 3, Redundant

I find that the majority of the educated population has a better command of English than most Americans.

This has been my experience doing business there. English is also used as common language between people whose native languages are different.

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