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India Cool to Microsoft Source Code Offer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. While you read the article by BigMe · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm a shootin' for 1st post. Prolly 30-40 by the time I get done. =/

  2. That's funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Redmond office probably looks a lot like freakin' Bangalore, with all the dotheads they're hiring over here. You'd think they'd get along better.

  3. morons refuse negotiations with softwar gangsters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    & who can bullame them/US.

    that would be like gotti/stalin/oj all coming to yOUR town @wonce, & offering to 'help' with the dry cleaning/political/battered women's shelter systems.

    lookout bullow. the daze of the phonIE corepirate nazi payper liesense stock markup FraUD hostage scam execrable, is dissolving into coolapps/the abyss.

  4. Gud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In fact, India shud not alow mycrosoft 2 invad it, go 2 pakistan insted!

  5. Re:So what's the problem? by Tsu+Dho+Nimh · · Score: 0, Troll
    " The problem is that if they hadn't, M$ would have found a way to lock it up"

    I fail to see that as a problem. Microsoft, of course, might have a different view.

  6. Re:No problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Since Microsoft's code has repeatedly (ad nauseam) been demonstrated to be as full of holes as a Swiss cheese

    You're right, they're almost as bad as OpenSSH!