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Is Linux Improving Life Of Poor In India?

Posted by timothy on from the depends-who-you-ask dept.

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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  1. first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Woo! But no name... :)

  2. NO!!!!!!!111oneoneone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HAHAHAHAH YOU FAIL IT!!!!!!!

    1. Re:NO!!!!!!!111oneoneone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You know what is even more McFaggoty than saying "Yeah, FP!!! Im a fagtacular being!"?
      Saying "you fail it." Fucking dickass.

      //the brain 2002

  3. Beef Vindaloo by kiwirob · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All I wanna know is if Linux is adding some punch to my Beef Vindaloo?

  4. Linux World Domination: Not A Joke! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator Fattecat (R-WA) is pushing for a ban on
    Finnish-produced software. His chief of staff, Ms. Dee Septive, has
    published a 200-page report revealing "the Helsinkian Underground", a
    Finnish world domination plot hatched in 1943.

    The Fattecat expose describes Finland's recent scheme involving free
    software. "Linux, originally called Freix (FREIX Retrieves Electronic
    Intelligence X), is a scheme to infiltrate the Western world with a 'free'
    operating system with nasty backdoors hidden within its obfuscated source
    code. IRC (Intelligence Relaying Code) is another Finnish innovation
    designed for spying purposes."

    Linus Torvalds plays a prominent role in the conspiracy. "That old story
    about Linus developing a Unix clone in his spare time while at University
    is a lark," the report states. "Indeed, the name Linux ("Line X") was
    coined because the kernel can extract any arbitrary line of intelligence
    from any document it has access to."

    -- Fortune cookies.

  5. Who needs Linus' infinite compassion when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you have Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman staring at you with their dead eyes?

  6. Re:Yes... by torpor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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!

    --
    ; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --