Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Govt plans laptops for students at Rs 400
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> | Students across the country will be able to buy specially designed
> | laptops at affordable prices with the Government planning to provide
> | them the gadget at around Rs 400.
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> | "The government aims to provide 10-dollar laptops to students and
> | research in this direction is on," said D Purandeshwari, Minister of
> | State for Human Resources Development in New Delhi.
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> http://www.ndtvprofit.com/2008/07/29153419
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> Are India and China taking over open source?
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> | The company has offered downloads of its ActiveVOS visual orchestration
> | system since March and noticed a troubling trend:
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> | We expected to have downloads from all over the world, but the
> | shocking truth is that a majority of our downloads are coming from
> | outside the U.S., especially from India and China. A conversation I
> | had with a marketing director at a major open-source ESB provider
> | confirmed that company is seeing fully half of its downloads from
> | India and China.
Eh?
I fail to see why that is a 'shocking' truth.
There are more internet users in China than any other country in
the world. And I'm sure India would be close behind.
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2710
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