__/ [ Aunty Diluvian ] on Sunday 27 August 2006 02:59 \__
> On 26 Aug 2006 15:38:40 -0700, "Mike H" <inkblotblasphemy@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Kerala logs Microsoft out
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | After the cola ban, it is now the turn of Microsoft to log out of
>>> | Kerala. Children in 12,500 high schools in the state, India?s most
>>> | literate, will not be taught Windows. Instead, instructors are lining
>>> | up Linux for them. This is because Kerala has chalked out a plan for
>>> | migrating its high school students to free software platforms in three
>>> | years.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://azharttm.blogspot.com/2006/08/kerala-logs-microsoft-out.html
>>>
>>> The whole of Kerala is moving to FLOSS. I believe the population size is
>>> 31 million, IIRC.
>>
>>Kerala is an admirable state. It's a socialist success story. The
>>Indians I met from Kerala were the best Indians I ever met.
>>
>>http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the%20kerala%20model
>
> How long will it be before the news breaks that they have dropped OSS
> for Windows because they have no inter-operability within their
> own government. Then what.
>
> Maybe Billy will be magnanimous and only charge them double
> to re-install some decent software in their country.
India will soon use nothing but ODF.
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/100143
You haven't been following the news, have you?
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