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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. 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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    +1 fashionably cynical