[Ilugc] Kerala logs Microsoft out of schools

  • From: toufeeqh@xxxxxxxxx (Toufeeq Hussain)
  • Date: Sat Sep 2 18:14:48 2006

Hi,

On 9/2/06, ~adarsh~ <vpadarsh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9/2/06, Sarad AV <jtrjtrjtr2001@xxxxxxxxx [10]> wrote:


The Kerala govt. must be trying to keep the treasuary
as intact as possible. The cost of training 56,000
teachers to migrate to linux must be significantly
less than purchasing Windows licenses...and aren't the
communist against market monopoly?

Sarad.

it started in early 2002 .
http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-edu/2002-December/000098.html [11]

Correct.
Gopal V has a better account of how it all started:
http://t3.dotgnu.info/blog/rants/kerala-linux-gpl.html

Don't be fooled by that anti-communist propaganda which found it's way
in the NYT article on slashdot.

-Toufeeq
-- 
blog @ http://toufeeq.net

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