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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. Turn About Is Fairplay by WED+Fan · · Score: 0, Troll

    All well and good. But, if there are any MS related call centers or tech centers in that state, MS should close them. Then, we'll see what happens to the fr*cking outsourced help.

    Yes, I'm all for wiping out 3rd world debt, but I'm also for wiping out the economies that harm the U.S.

    Go MS, take that commie's, RMS, adherents and show them what-for.

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