Re: India Adopts Free/Open Source Approach

[Sermo Malifer <sermomalifer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

shmell_dakaka@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sep 22, 7:19 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> > Firms look at open source for CSR ideas
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> > | Adopting the spirit of open source, people are appropriating innovative ideas
> > | and improvising them for coming out with solutions that help make the world a
> > | better place to live. And companies are all too eager to join hands with
> > | social entrepreneurs in putting their ideas on the ground, even showering the
> > | social innovators with prizes, sponsorship and linkages with industry and
> > | other stakeholders.    
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> > http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=335077&ch...
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> > Recent:
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> > Free software vending machine
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> > | Freedom toaster,’ a free software CD/DVD vending machine, will be launched at
> > | Technopark in the city on Monday.
> > |
> > | The Toaster is designed and developed by Zyxware Technologies and promoted
> > | jointly by Zyxware Technologies and GNU/Linux Users Group Trivandrum.
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> > http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/01/stories/2008090160450300.htm
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> > Related:
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> > Kerala shuts windows, schools to use only Linux
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> > | A few weeks ago, the Government formally ordered that only free Linux-based
> > | software should be used for IT education in high schools, using new the Linux
> > | text books developed by State Council for Educational Research and Training
> > | and the Free Software Foundation of India.  
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> > http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html
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> > Kerala On Linux Express Highway
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> > | The Linux slip-road that the state took is slowly becoming an
> > | express highway.
> > |
> > | [...]
> > |
> > | If we twist Napoleon's quote on China a bit, we can safely say, "Linux is a
> > | sleeping giant, let it sleep, because when Linux moves the world moves!"
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> > http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=16139&magid=11
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> BS ... India is a country that makes a good living out of it's
> population training and talent in the area of Windows and Microsoft
> technologies. Linux brings no revenue to the people of India. Windows
> and MS technologies such as Server 08, SQL Server 08 and Exchange 07
> is where the future is. The people of India know that very well.
Please reconcile your claims against the article that Roy quoted and 
referenced.
"The hardline Left’s familiar anti-MNC, anti-proprietory planks apart, 
another major plus of abandoning Microsoft, claim state IT Mission 
officials, is plainly the cost factor. “Going for a massive 
Windows-based infrastructure cost a lot. Linux can bundle all 
applications with the operating system facilitating a single 
installation kit”. "