India Cool to Microsoft Source Code Offer

indianseason writes "Economic Times, India reports on the failure of Microsoft to sign up the Indian government as part of the Government Security Program. The Print Edition carries a comment by an official: "... there was tremendous pressure on us to sign an MoU (memorandum of understanding) which would allow Microsoft access to all TDIL products (Technology Development for Indian Languages)." The government has gone ahead and put all the project initiatives in the public domain. TDIL recently released Indix : an engine for rendering Indian languages on linux."

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Re:So what's the problem?

[MickLinux]

Clearly, that's not the problem. If the Open-sourcing of TDIL's work was under GNU, then they can't use it line-for-line without some sort of *other* agreement with the authors. (well, actually, they might... but that would imply some sort of liability. I hope it doesn't happen, though, because I'd hate to see WWIII start between Microsoft and India.)

That also doesn't mean that the MOU won't eventually be signed. Rather, it means that the Indian Government is very cool to the idea right now.

Not hard to see why, really.