India is expanding a government-led program to provide free, local language software to all of its citizens, as it tries to broaden computer use in the country.
India is expanding a government-led program to provide free, local language software to all of its citizens, as it tries to broaden computer use in the country.
The move to widely distribute free desktop applications and tools could be seen as a setback for Microsoft Corp., but the Indian government says it has no agenda to promote open source-software over proprietary products. What’s more, all of the applications and tools run on Windows, while some do not run on Linux, and any move to expand computer use in one of the world’s most populous countries could arguably benefit Microsoft
India’s Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a Pune-based research and development (R&D) organization of the Indian government, is distributing CDs with the software in Tamil and Hindi, two important languages in India. C-DAC plans to introduce versions of the software in other Indian languages later this year.
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Sorry you don’t have enough to eat…but hey…HERE’S a COMPUTER! Now that makes sense. (sarcasim intended)
We need an open source international computer standard that exists as universal shared code via switches. One planet one code all networked and automated.