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 Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-01 02:23 · Score: -1, Redundant

We've had full support for all the Indic (Devanagari-based) languages since Windows 2000 and Office 2000 shipped. So I don't see why on Earth we'd need to license the Indian technology.

Now, if that's the case, why in the hell was Bill Gates in India trying to get this? Something doesn't add up.