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Indian State Logs Microsoft Out

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the player-one-has-lost-the-match dept.

slack_prad writes "An Indian state, Kerala has chalked out a plan for migrating its high school students to free software platforms in three years. This was apparently in response to RMS's recent visit to the place. The education minister for the state said that the Free software guru Richard Stallman's visit last week had nudged the schools to discard the proprietary software altogether. 'Stallman has inspired Kerala's transition to free software on the lines of an exciting model of a Spanish province.' Initially, schools were given the option to choose whether teachers were to be trained in Linux systems or Microsoft. The option has now narrowed down to migration."

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  1. I forsee by Cheapy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I foresee a massive discount for a certain Indian state by a certain U.S. company...

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  2. RMS must be getting better by David+Off · · Score: 2, Funny

    My old company (the OSF) had a visit from RMS once. He spent the whole week with some wierd GNU logo stuck to his forehead which I think frightened my boss. I hope, like Linux, he's more user friendly these days.

  3. Re:I belong to Kerala and know it will work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    RMS had a seminar over there. He had put on a long robe and a CD around his head as halo

    He got you: It's obviously the "I put on my robe and wizard hat" thing.

  4. Re:Think about the children! by mikeswi · · Score: 3, Funny

    I agree. There should be that one Windows computer in the back of the classroom that takes 5 minutes to boot and then crashes an hour later because all the spyware pop-ups have run out all the memory. That would be the example for why all the computers in the classroom run something else. ;-)

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