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Kerala (Indian State) to go 100% Linux

financialexpress.com — After the cola ban it is now the turn of Microsoft to log out of Kerala. Children in 12500 high schools in the state will not be taught Windows. Instead instructors are lining up Linux for them. Kerala has 99.9% Literacy. No Tech Support Comments Please

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  • kettlechips, on 10/12/2007, -29/+7I believe the cola ban was overturned.
    • kettlechips, on 10/12/2007, -30/+6I mean it's just creating a black market.
    • cmilki, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11It was by the supreme court, but the Kerala High Court and govt. refuse to budge.

      I guess this is similar to the ban on Alcohol in Andhra Pradesh (by NTRs TDP)
    • neoknight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@cilki

      the ban no longer remains, it was lifted after his son in law 'got' himself elected.
      it's been flowing freely since like 1997 i think.
    • cmilki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Neoknight, I was talking about NTRs TDP. I know his son-in-law lifted it. NTR is the name of the person who started the ban in the first place.
  • XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -26/+17Serves microsoft right!
    • i440, on 10/12/2007, -28/+12"Serves microsoft right!"

      Serves Microsoft right for what?
    • cmilki, on 10/12/2007, -27/+15For monopolising Windows, not keeping in par of features compared to Mac or Linux etc etc etc.
    • i440, on 10/12/2007, -30/+14"For monopolising Windows"

      I don't see the monopoly. We have Mac OS X and Linux, for one thing.

      "not keeping in par of features compared to Mac or Linux etc etc etc."

      Examples?
    • mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -25/+15Serves them right? I love that they are teaching Linux to the kids, but NO Windows at all? Seeing as how like 95% of people use it, it is important to know, even if you dont use it yourself. I, personally, try to maintain skills on Windows, Linux, and OSX, so I have as many options open to me as possible, and I am not tied down to just one OS.
    • burke, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29"Seeing as how like 95% of people use it"

      Apparently not in Kerala.
    • Escamillo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20"For monopolising Windows"

      The very fact that a "state" can "go 100% Linux" proves that there is no Windows monopoly.
    • twtmc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I'm glad to see advancement of such open source technology. The internet is a good community, and introducing more people into only further advances the community. Unfortunately with windows, there really isn't much a community because it is closed source. Mac has somewhat of a community, but all in all, it just sort of blends with the linux community again. I would like to see linux being pushed in our school systems here in north america a bit more. Maybe then people would realize how their software works a bit better and might be able to fix it if it breaks.
    • archiesteel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12You can play semantics and say that Windows is not a monopoly because it doesn't have a 100% market share, but the fact of the matter is that you don't need *total* control of a market to be considered a monopoly from a legal standpoint.

      MS can use its huge market presence to, say, pressure OEMs into not loading other OSes by default; that's an example of how, legally, it could be said to abuse its monopoly status.
    • martalli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why should the government pay some set amount for every single computer simply to have an operating system, when an OS (and almost all necessary software) can be had for free.
      Most people are simply learning to use the word processor, cruising the Internet for information. For programming, Linux has almost too many options for learning languages, old and new.

      If you want to learn MS Windows later, then buy a copy. It's hardly difficult to learn. I highly doubt any school is teaching very much about Windows system management (to the general student pop), as any sysadmin worth his salt wouldn't allow them to be used with the admin accounts.

  • lokeshk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39Kerala's decision to move to Linux is a good sign for Linux. Open nature of Linux kernel should also help Indian students to learn kernel internals easier and modify it to suit to their own needs, which is not possible with Windows.
    • i440, on 10/12/2007, -23/+5But where would the future developers be outsourced to?
    • Kelmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@i440

      China and other low-cost Far East countries seems a fair bet. The economics of the demand for cheap labour is already pushing up the prices in India such that western companies are now looking to other countries that have yet be plumbed but where the education is generally good. For example, my organisation (a very big one in the US) now employs outsourcing centres in China and Mexico as well as India.
  • pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -27/+21kerala is very socialist leaning. that is behind a lot of these positive results.
  • coldphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2for being EVIL, thats what
  • krum, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2699.9% literacy? Really? According to the Indian Census, it's more like 90%.
    • foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20yes. it is more like 90%.....
      but I have lived in India for 9 years..... never met anyone who cant read and write.....
    • affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -25/+2But your the fool from hell, India surely isn't hell
    • fatas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36Kerala is a socialist state so they have a very high literacy rate unlike the rest of India.
    • ztpruit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23@FoolFromHell
      I have lived in the US for over 21 years (that would be my whole life) and while our literary rate is one of the best in the world and most people can speak, read, and write American English, the majority cannot do it properly. Now feel free to tear apart my comment.
    • Seumas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I've never met a fellow American who couldn't read or write, either. That doesn't mean the US has 99.9% literacy, however.
    • amarsuperstar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13"I've never met a fellow American who couldn't read or write, either."
      So you have never been to Alabama then?!
    • mancat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Well for what it's worth, most of the people in Alabama who can't read or write, still refer to the United States as "The Confederate States."
    • martalli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"but I have lived in India for 9 years..... never met anyone who cant read and write....."

      That's ridiculous. My mother-in-law can't read Tamil - she really never had the opportunity for school when she was young. The situation in her village is drastically different now (girls go farther in school than boys now!), but many villages and poor families are still in the same situation. I think if you move around with the well-to-do, they will all know to read and write. Why don't you give your servants all a reading test. Chances are your sweeper knows little more than their name...otherwise they would be doing something other than sweeping!
  • fugazi, on 10/12/2007, -16/+40Finally they can answer my linux questions on the support line.
    • k3xiceman, on 10/12/2007, -31/+4I love how he asked for "No Tech Support Comments" come on buddy, you know the game, every single time I call tech support, I think I dialed the wrong number, no offense, I love Middle Easterners!
    • rm999, on 10/12/2007, -19/+9omg you made the most obvious joke in the world - so obvious the headline specifically called it out.

      shoot yourself.
    • thepxc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15@IceMan

      India is the _far_ East.
    • t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah. With some decent education, Quark techsupport's solution will probably NOT be to run chmod -R 777 /Library when the installer can't install. Maybe if the installer didn't run chmod -R 4777 /Applications, I'd be even happier.
    • martalli, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"no offense, I love Middle Easterners!"

      Offense taken - India is South Asia, not the Middle East. Is the US Latin America?
    • sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't think tech support is outsourced to Kerala...
    • skyshock21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ martalli

      "Is the US Latin America"

      It is *NOW*. :)
    • martalli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@skyshock

      sort of expected that one to come lol =)
  • foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Kerala is an awesome vacation spot! been there some 4 times for vacation. all desis... proclaim your presence!
    • decay, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14OK you found me.
    • DPyro, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8reporting in
    • ccreddy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Desi 4
    • deepusj, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Me too and I am from Kerala
    • shashark, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Taking Fire, Need Assistance!
    • ubers0ldat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Born in Kerala baby...
    • zgeorge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2allright - kerala origin here too. While I've never actually lived in Kerala,
      I've heard the 99% literacy figure too. I believe it's some UNDP figure.
      ..and yes great vacation spot. Go Linux! Speaking of which, anyone got
      ubuntu drapper wireless working without an ndiswrapper ? ( for a broadcom driver )
    • kaushalc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Me too..
    • binnyva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Count me in. Born and raised(and still is in) Kerala.
    • geekest, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0after 148 days im ***** around this just to ***** proclaim my ***** presence bitches!
    • rabidstrikes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1initializing...................................
      ....................................................
      root@rabidstrikes:#
  • gxcdesign, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6damn they training them up for the Pengiun Support Centre...yes I can read, but either way it was funny
  • Lavarock, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5*Coughtechsupportcough*

    *coughindians*
    • beotch, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5-edit ended in the wrong thread!
      anyway:
      @golgo I served in Pol Pot and Stalin's super secret murder squad. But I have faced the fact that Indians have a reputation for extremely bad english and a horrible accent that is difficult, if not impossible, for native english speakers to understand. Perhaps saying Indians can't get jobs outside of a call center is a bit much, but in America that is usually the only time you get exposure to them so the idea is formed.
  • ravenofwinter, on 10/12/2007, -32/+4So what? The only job they can get is phone-banking for US companies anyway.



    • mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2Couldn't resist eh?
    • golgo13, on 10/12/2007, -11/+41I'm Indian, I served in a Special Operation Group while enlisted in the United States Army. I've been to pretty much every hot spot, for the U.S., there is.

      What have you ever done? I'm guessing the only thing you've ever done, besides post on digg, is make *****, ignorant remarks about people you don't know.
    • ravenofwinter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Boy, people can't take a joke, can they?

  • Yoda716, on 10/12/2007, -17/+18boooo ***** microsoft, horaay Linux!
    • i440, on 10/12/2007, -22/+7Digg-style ridiculous overmodding for comment supportive of Linux and critical of Microsoft in 5...4...3...
    • vistic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Did you make this Red Stripe Beer style comment because you think the Jamaican dude in the commercials is Indian?
  • motang, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Interesting, a huge push for the Linux community indeed.
  • Seumas, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1112,500 highschools "in the state"?!

    Holy *****, how many billions of people live there?!
    • lordofhaha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12oh about 0.031838619 billion or so 5 years ago...

      (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala)
    • caboosemoose, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6At 1000 children per school that makes about 125,000 school age children. The entire population of India is now well over 1,000,000,000. I think you'll easily see that 12,500 schools in the state is eminently possible from even such rough estimates.
    • Seumas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Um. No. At 1,000 children per highschool, that makes about 12,500,000 high school aged children -- not 125,000.

      Also, 1,000 children per school is really small. Seems like a lot of likely administrative redundancy involved.

    • Seumas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3At 1,000 per highschool and a total state population of 31million (a little bigger than New York), that means that about 33% of the state's population is HIGHSCHOOL CHILDREN (not even counting other school children).

      That would be insane.
    • ggoyal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Administrative redundancy maybe, but many schools in many Indian villages dont have more than 50 children studying. Indian governments do have a policy, at least on paper, to have an elementary school within 5-6 kilometers of every village or town. So the figure of 12500 schools is very much possible
  • mgrasso, on 10/12/2007, -21/+1Great for linux, but do you really want to send kids off to college who aren't familiar with Windows?
    • beotch, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15We all know operating Windows is essential knowledge, not like math or chemistry.

      If a college or university is teaching Windows specific material, they will also be handing out expensive toilet-paper at the graduation ceremony.
    • burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10plus, if they're only teaching linux in high schools, what do you imagine universities will be teaching?
    • Agret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11If you know how to use Linux you'll pick Windows up really quickly....and hate it :)
    • t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's really not hard to learn Windows compared to any other platform. Apart from the instability and other stuff, it's really not that hard.
    • martalli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I learned to use windows, macs, dos, netware, and unix at college essentially on my own. Since I'm a little old, and my school district was a little behind, my high school was using TRS-80's to teach pascal. It didn't hold me back from learning all of the above and doing great in pascal and c classes I took just for fun later on (I was a bio major). Besides, people are not learning windows administration at school, they're learning to click on menus to start up ms word. That's no different than clicking on the big K to bring up OOo. Don't worry, people will be just fine without learning Windows in high school.
  • diggywiggit, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3bury me if youre jealous.
  • evangelion01, on 10/12/2007, -40/+3is it just me or indian people smell funky?
    • burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18What an appropriate and on-topic comment. You win the internet.
    • Seumas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22I'm been around more stinky fellow Americans than I have Indians.
    • jordanrobbins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14White people smell funky to Asians!
      its all about what you eat.
      They say we smell like dairy products.
    • atillatheliger, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Some of my Indian co-workers smell like they don't take showers every day. It's not food.
    • Seumas, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6It's a running office joke. They refuse to shower so they can torture you, becasue they hate you.
    • JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When you eat enough of their food, you just start to smell like it. You can shower but it has no effect, because the smell is coming from inside you. You aren't smelling some sort of dirt or funk on the person.

      Try eating a couple cloves of garlic and then exercising... you will smell like garlic. Same difference with curry and the other spices that are used heavily in Indian cuisine.

      My Japanese friend says they have a word for Westerners that literally translates to "butter-burners". It describes the smell of someone who eats dairy products, which most Asians don't consume... it's not in their culture, and their rate of lactose intolerance is something around 90%. I'm of European descent but don't eat dairy due to lactose intolerance, and I've been told by Asians I don't have the butter-burner smell.

      They don't seem to find the dairy-eater smell to be very offensive, just odd.
  • Claw787, on 10/12/2007, -7/+699.9% liteacy................

    maybe 100% of them can read/write their mother-tounge.

    but what is the percentage of Hindi (india's national language) or English litracy?

    I have met dozens of people who can't even speak India's national language.
    • riplikethat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Exactly. I haven't met many Keralites who can speak either properly. Only those living in Delhi so far (few of them) can speak or write it clearly. So I have no idea where that 99% literacy is going, but good for them anyway.
    • amire80, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Knowing English is not literacy.

      English is not inherently more important than any oter language. It's important for technology and communication, but literacy is first and foremost about person's mothertongue.

      And don't you worry about Indians studying English - they are not so bad at it (funny accent aside).

      Frow what i heard, Kerala has a democratically elected communist government - probably the only such place in the world. Apparently some good things come from it...
    • gladguy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7India has more than 50 languages.And each more than (25 states) state has its own language for reading and writing.
      Hindi is the national Lang.But, it is not necessary to know Hindi.Since most of the indians dont even travel all over india.
      They stick with their state and may be to other countries for earnings.

      Culture of Indians : We dont abandon our kids or parents (When they are sick or when you are rich) as in other parts of the countries, who they themself call, as civilised and developed countries.

      Example of a typical indian with family values :

      Father
      Mother
      3 Daughters elders(20,19,17)
      1 Son youngest in the family (15)

      Father died when the son was at the age of 15.And mother at 35.She will never think about getting married again.(10% exception)
      What, he will do you know,He will spend his maximum energy to make the family to get economical freedom.(Concentrate on studies like Engineering,Medicine or work hard in a local business)

      Earn ...Earn...Earn...spend the money to his sisters to get married.Even the properties of father will be spend to his sisters marriage.Mother will be supportive to do this.

      He will be getting married at 30-35.Till this time he will not be willing to have his own girl friend.

      Have you ever seen such kind of culture and self-sacrifice to the family ?
      Speaking English ( a worst language which doesn't have many words of its origin) is not a rocket science.If you teach a mole it might be able to speak out.Well.











    • masteryoda, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I had been to Kerala once and they actually prefer you speak Malayalam and if they know Hindi they will ignore if you ask anything in Hindi.
    • jerinjoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ignore you if you don't know malayalam? i've never faced that.
      and that long winded story about indian values and how the son supports the family. i don't think you know what this discussion is about. i see you're the usual jingoist patriot. quit india, superiority of indian culture etc etc. if it really felt its superiority you wouldn't be here shouting it out for the world to hear. people can figure it out for themselves.
  • kingkilr, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15How come every Indian(or person from that region) I meat in real life I can understand, I can understand them in movies. But for some reason when something stops working and I call tech support I DON'T HAVE A ***** CLUE WHAT THEY ARE SAYING!
    • AnimalMachine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10It's the phone. The phone amps the accent.
    • diggywiggit, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7You need to stop being a newbie.
    • supermansuper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Maybe you dont know your english(american, rather) that well. And yeah, btw, it is not 'meat' idiot, it is 'meet'. And this guy comments about someone else's bad english. What a moron.
    • Kelmon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This is indeed a fair comment from my experience but one that probably can best be blamed on the telephone lines. We have a fair number of outsourced groups in India and they can be difficult to understand on conference calls, yet when they come to visit on-site then there's no problem. To be honest, even the telephone problem deteriorates over time as you get more used to it but it is still a struggle at times. In some respects it also has the advantage that it forces you to really concentrate on the meeting whereas on other conference calls I've been known to zone-out due to the overall tedium of the meeting and have missed something important.
    • Agret, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4"And yeah, btw, it is not 'meat' idiot, it is 'meet'."
      No he means meat, as in ***** them
    • RickySan65, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2"It's the phone. The phone amps the accent."

      *****!
  • jerinjoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9With a population of 30 million, the state is India's most progressed society in terms of education, literacy and health. The Marxist government in Kerala despite being considered detrimental to a free market economy did wonders for the state in the sixties and seventies. They helped to abolish the wretched caste system, put everyone in school and create a base for the excellent healthcare system. They're back in power now and they did scuttle a project to setup a major IT software center in the state. But they banned Coke and Pepsi from operating in the state - these companies were robbing the state of its abundant water resources and releasing pollutants into the rivers. And now with promoting Linux, I think they're on the right track.
    • daemonx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Im from kerala, and u can imagine how happy i was to see my state's name on the front page of digg. Though i applaud on the decision to introduce linux there are some infrastructure problems in kerala, mainly being power shortages. The SEA-ME-WE cable terminates in Cochin, which is set to be the next technopolis, but still the govt is tight on providing bandwidth to the masses. Hope it gets resolved soon..
  • sharjeelsayed, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2The other Indian states should follow suit and embrace Linux.
    LINUX RULESSSS

    --
    Sharjeel
    http://www.sharjeel.net
  • theMangledOne, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It's very refreshing to hear developing countries adopting Linux better than developed countries (on a wide government-based, state/nation-wide basis).

    (And yes, I heard of the US' DoD's call for better adoption of open-source. Which is good.)

    I think it's high time for better standards and open source, don't you think? Then everybody is playing/fighting on equal playing field, and that's what I called "true meritocracy."
  • vishnus, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3INDIA SUCKZZ.... microsoft rulzzz
    microsoft will remain as the best :)
  • gd007, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4whole india needs to go linux, the money thus saved can be spent on poor.
    • kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2 India is a ***** hole of a country. They need to worry about being abused by the government. Not what OS there computers run. India has 2 classes of people. Very poor 99.9%. and Very rich .1%.

      The citizens of India are being raped by their own government. Hell they can't even afford to live on there own. It is like 9 Indians, making 2$ and hour sharing a one bed room apartment.

      And don't tell me I don't know what I am talking about. I have spent a few months in India, and could not believe it until I saw it.
  • hesiod, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5"No Tech Support Comments Please"

    Doesn't this go against the whole idea of Digg? Why are you trying to suggest what people should and shouldn't say in their comments?

    This ain't Slashdot, man.
  • MrFrankly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It seems Kerala wants a good Microsoft volume license offer. The best way to do that is by saying you'll switch all your computers to Linux.

    I'm curious how many of those announced Linux switches by cities/states/countries really happened? In the end most of them seem to go for Windows because they're getting a good deal from Microsoft.
  • mbthompson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is a good step forward, though I am skeptical of its significance. Until we see a "state" of the U.S. go completely Linux, or perhaps even a major university in the U.S. Microsoft will most definitely have a monopoly. Game and software designers need to start supporting Linux especially user friendly versions like Freespire or Ubuntu/Kubuntu. As a nation we have been held back technology-wise because of the fear of leaving Windows and Microsoft.
    • martalli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Game designers' support of Linux will never matter as much as support of the endless varieties of business software which would need to be switched to Linux.

      Our office uses Linux on several computers. There are three apps we have that must use Windows: A radiology visualization front-end (requires activex and windows), transcription upload/download program written in VB (crashamatic), and Quickbooks. There are probably easy Linux solutions for all three, but since they tie into business partners we have little control over (the local hospital, an *Indian* transcription company, and our accountants), then we are better off with these programs.

      Yeah, yeah, we could try crossover office, etc. But the price of these are close to the cost of windows. So far, my best windows emulator is still an actual copy of windows. However, if I could talk the radiology company into writing a Linux front end, if Quickbooks came out for Linux, if the transcription company would rewrite their program in wxpython, then all of this would improve. It's just a matter of reaching a tipping point.

      The installed base of Linux exceeds macs (very arguable point, I'm sure), but Linux doesn't have the heavy advertising of macs, so they still seem to be in a distant third for desktop apps in the business realm. I think the efforts of Novell and IBM are changing this landscape...as long as they aren't actually in a suicidal charge...
  • mbthompson, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1But what about Tech Support?

    -Sorry, just had to throw it in there because of the OP.
  • rm10, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1HOLY *****! Do you hear that? It's the thundering stampede of billions of people rushing to download a copy of linux! Hopefully linux servers everywhere will be able to cope with the sudden download rush.

    The evil Micro$ux CEO's must be pissing their pants! HAHA!
  • rtphokie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Why is this newsworthy?
    • riplikethat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There's something about Bush in there.. read it carefully.
    • glycolized, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why is this newsworthy?

      Maybe because the implications of 12,500 high schools teaching linux is a big deal. Hell, from what I gather here, there is about 25,000 high schools in the whole US.

      http://www.publicpurpose.com/gf-edschd.htm

      That surely will make a difference in 10 years, especially if any other Indian states follow suit. A lot of the comments here are assuming that the US is the center of the universe in regards to technology, industry, and economics. That may not always be the case in the future, so comments like "95% of the world...", and "to get into college you'll need...", are pretty short-sighted.

      Seriously, do you think that a kid that has learned his computer literacy on linux machines is going to be educationally crippled when they get to college and they are typing freshman english papers on Word?
  • cowbud, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Well that settles it, How could *"God's Own Country" be wrong about what OS to use?

    *http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=God's%20Own%20Country&btnG=Google+Search
  • bluemech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No matter how you feel about Windows it doesn't seem smart to only have Linux. The fact is for the most part Windows machines will be what they'll run into in life. It's good to learn top use Linux or a Mac but not teaching Windows at all is a little silly.
    • fatas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You have to be a ***** idiot to having experience in using Linux and then being clueless when using Windows.
  • binnyva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The move to linux is not just for schools - Canara bank - one of the bigger banks in India is moving to Linux completely
    • cmilki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hey the President of India likes it. What do you expect ?
  • drinkitt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0So they're using Linux because they can't ~steal~ windows anymore? Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Linux.
  • ookk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Do they donate any money to the open source projects they use?
  • pyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What distro are they using?!?!?!
  • abhishekkant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0this decision is more political than than anything else. trust politicians to continue in their worst form at most unlikely places:
    http://abhishekkant.blogspot.com/2006/09/technology-myopia-in-kerala.html
    • bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1looks like you're the one with myopia, bloated head aside
  • sksimhalu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Guys, take a break, listen to scorpions----- "Under the same sun"
  • binnyva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My thoughts about this subject.

    http://blog.binnyva.com/2006/09/linux-in-kerala/

    I am living in Kerala - and have been using Linux for over 2 years now.
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