Is Linux Improving Life Of Poor In India?

mood6 writes "Linux Journal has a nice article on Automating Government with e-Governance. It discusses Linux usage by the Indian government to improve the lives of the rural poor (interesting look at how the IT boom in India is benefiting the poor). The article covers some of the difficulties in deploying Linux in non-English languages for government usage. Good read for those looking at Linux in e-Governance projects and a good follow up to a previous article by Tom Adelstein. In support of full disclosure: I wrote the article and the platform was developed by Delixus, my current company."

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Re:Yes...

[torpor]

You're an idiot and don't know what the hell you're talking about.

What is it about people and their willingness to just drop insults on perfect strangers?

Personally, I find this habit, particularly in what could be an enlightening conversation about the poor, technology, and Linux to be utterly despicable.

It is attitudes like this that let the U.S. get away with waging criminal war, you know ... this "you are an idiot" crutch that so many un-critical thinkers are capable of leaning on ...

In my opinion, it is street bigotry, and the world needs a hell of a lot less of that right now.

No man deserves to be labelled an idiot by another. Don't do it. Its just plain rude. Your parents sucked at raising you!