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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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| [...]
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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/Govt-plans-laptops-for-student.html
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.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2710
Related:
HRD hopes to make $10 laptops a reality
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| So far, the cost of one laptop, after factoring in labour charges,
| is coming to $47 but the ministry feels the price will come
| down dramatically considering the fact that the demand would
| be for one million laptops.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/TOIonline/India/HRD_hopes_to_make_10_laptops_a_reality/articleshow/1999849.cms
India can live without Microsoft
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| More than 6,500 Linux systems have already been packed off to
| villages and another 6,100 Acer desktop systems with Suse on
| their way.
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| Umashankar said that more than 20,000 desktop systems will be
| installed in schools that will only run on Suse. All ELCOT
| servers will run on Redhat. ELCOT expects to train 30,000
| government officials in Linux and Open Office too.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36689
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