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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. Troll? by derEikopf · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Am I missing something? What does the literacy rate have to do with the story?

    1. Re:Troll? by posterlogo · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Agreed -- that's totally just bait for some. I doubt that communism or literacy rate have anything to do with it. All it does is draw attention to the concept that some Indian states have different forms of government, and that many of the poor there are illiterate. As the story itself points out, other Indian states have already embraced FOSS.

  2. Re:communix? by carlivar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, usually communism and the word "mandatory" go hand-in-hand!

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  3. Re:So? by joeyspqr · · Score: 3, Insightful

    from the specific (me) to the general (the world)

    there are 3 programmers of Indian descent within eyeshot of my cube and more down the hall. there are what, 700 million? people there. Ghandi was arguably one of the greatest leaders in all of human history. India is a nation with a brilliant history spanning millenia, and a rapidly modernizing, vibrant economy developing a democratic government that has to deal with dozens of ethnicities and religions ... something the US (or anyone else) hasn't quite figured out yet.

    So there. India is the face of the future. India matters.

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  4. Re:Well..more like Socialist.. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Heh. Don't you know anything? Most of us stupid Yanks don't know the difference between socialism and communism and many believe that they are the same thing, all the while not realizing that we've had socialism in the U.S. (albeit watered down) for more than 60 years. Anyway, FOSS isn't really a socialist or communist idea anyway. If anything, the ideals of Free Software are aligned more closely with American Libertarianism than anything else.

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  5. Re:NOT COMMUNIST by Knuckles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In contrast to what US brainwashing tells you, communism and democracy are not opposites.

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  6. Re:communix? by micktaggart · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So communism works, only not with humans are you saying?

  7. Re:So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > Ghandi was arguably one of the greatest leaders in all of human history.

    And were he alive, he'd appreciate it if you'd spell his name correctly.