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Another Indian State Moving To FOSS

Posted by kdawson on from the dominoes dept.

james.infidel writes "The Hindu, a leading national newspaper, reports that the Communist government of Kerala (the state with the highest literacy rate in India) has announced its all-out support for FOSS in the draft IT policy announced yesterday. The draft also calls for preferential treatment for companies coming forward to work in the FOSS domain.

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  1. Well..more like Socialist.. by cOdEgUru · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even though the color of the flag is red and they adopt the name Communists, they are far from it. And atleast a little bit of why this measure suddenly took off has to do with the Communist Party wanting to align itself to the more conservative communist ideals than what West Bengal (another Communist state) has done, which is to embrace more private investment.

    But I am glad to find my state laying out the red carpet for FOSS.

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    Rapid Nirvana
  2. Re:commies? by namityadav · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just to make it clear, India is a democracy. In fact, India is world's largest democracy. The government in Kerala is also chosen democratically.

    When people say "Communist government of Kerala", they actually mean a democratically chosen government which is influenced by some Marxist concepts.