India Cool to Microsoft Source Code Offer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 1, 2003 @01:24AM from the look-at-the-strings-on-that-thing dept.

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? by xanadu-xtroot.com · 2003-10-01 02:17 · Score: 4, Funny

We are forbidden to look at any GPL'ed code. BSD code is a grey area, and we need to consult with legal.

Shouldn't you be fixing some bugs and not browsing /. if that all truly be the case??

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Re:So what's the problem? by McAddress · 2003-10-01 02:30 · Score: 4, Funny

This is to avoid "contamination" of their source code base.
Imagine Darl McBride insisting all Windows users pay $699 to use it.