Indian Government Keen on Open Source

manugarg writes "The Indian government is distributing free CDs of localized open sorce softwares like Firefox, OpenOffice.org etc. to encourage the use of computers across the country. ZDNet reports, 'The Indian government's decision to ship free software in this way likely will be a blow to Microsoft, which plans to release a low-cost version of Windows in India soon. Microsoft originally hoped to release its Windows XP Starter Edition--a low-cost, feature-restricted version of Windows XP--by the end of March, but it's now aiming for a June release.'"

Nice planning.

[get out of debt]

Great woo hoo I got a CD. Now all i need is a pc, monitor and keyboards.

Coincidence?

[lecithin]

Current Slashdot Submission - Linux: Indian Government Keen on Open Source

Last Slashdot Submission - Ask Slashdot: Using Computer Stores to Spread Open Source?

Lemmie think here...

Future Submission? Apu: Thank You, Come Again!

Re:open sorce softwares

[Felinoid]

Not sure what your trying to get at so I'll cover a wide range of possabilitys.

iSpell vs MsWord: Ms Word has some very bad habbits when it comes to spellchecking. There is some major defect that once triggered Ms Word will produce incorrect results.
One might accuse the Slashdot team of using Ms Word to find spelling errors.

Slashdot: Yeah they are kinda in a hurry. A normal newspaper will have profesional proff readers. Slashdot has nothing, nada, zip and nada III.

Lastly merging points 1 and 2.
Microsoft has a history of screwing up forgen languages.
If Slashdot was using a version of Linux localised for India they probably wouldn't have access to an ENGLISH spell checker.

Re:umm

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know.

I think filling tubes with a flammable liquid and lighting them on fire to simulate light sabers is a little stupider than Windows XP Started Edition :)

Re:empahsis

[Frodo Crockett]

Shouldn't India be worrying about more important things like reducing the population, and feeding it?

If you leave those two problems alone long enough, they'll solve each other.

(Note to humorless mods: this is a joke!)

Re:Another potentially missed deadline...

[Quirk]

Your sig: "If you find this post offensive, don't read it!"

Do you suffer from some weird kind of epistemological dyslexia? Do you, unlike the rest of us, have some grok like, gestalten faculity that allows you to sense whether a post is offensive before you read it? Ah, you are a l337 jedi, able to sense the dark side.

Favorate joke about Indians.

[interstellar_donkey]

In India, there are 1.1 billion people.

So when somebody in India says "You're one in a million", there are 1,100 people out there just like you.