Indian Government Chooses Linux for Academia

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."

Comments

Re:This is really a great thing

[Grishnakh]

Yep, pretty soon Americans will be the only morons left still using Microsoft crap while the rest of the world has moved on to operating systems which have security, reliability, and open standards as their main features, rather than slick marketing and proprietary lock-ins.

Soon after, the US Navy will be attacked some terrorist organization with fishing boats, and will lose because the terrorists sent them yet another MS worm causing their ship computers to blue-screen.

Why choose any OS?

[anarkhos]

Why not let the academic institutions choose their own friggin tools?!

I guess I won't be buying any software from Indian companies |-\