Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Indian Government Moves to Let Linux In

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the come-and-knock-on-our-door dept.

Webi writes "The government of India has started taking precise, wide-reaching steps to usher in a Linux wave in India." India sure seems to be a highly contested arena lately. Interestingly, India's plan calls for government-sponsored support and call centers. Looks like they've really thought this through.

3 of 326 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Ok, And I Should Caaaree......Why? by ceejayoz · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, except for the fact that the world's biggest business is Wal-Mart, and MS doesn't even rank on the top ten.

  2. Porting by jbolden · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...do you really think that Office, Explorer, Visual Studio, Visual Basic, ect ect ect HASN'T been ported to Lunix?

    Yes. The windows API hasn't been ported to Linux, GDI hasn't been ported to Linux. That is a tremendous amount of work that would all have to happen first. This topic hasn't failed to come up, and Microsoft's position has always been that it would much too expensive and their isn't any reason (i.e. the major desktop demand for Linux is to escape the rather low licensing costs so why would these same people pay for Office et al).

  3. Sensationalist Headlines by donutello · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article is light on details but from reading it there were two things I gathered they were doing:

    1. When asking for bids, the requirements wouldn't specify Microsoft - rather specify the true requirements.

    2. Computer textbooks wouldn't teach Word or Excel - rather teach how to use word processors and spreadsheets.

    Both are things they should be doing regardless of Linux. It's asinine to do otherwise.

    --
    Mmmm.. Donuts