[Osia-members] Indian Gov Mandates Open Source Software

[Daniel Jitnah]

If you have not seen it yet,

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Indian government mandates use of open source software
ZDNet The Indian government has decreed the use of open source software
across all systems used by the public sector, mandating that all Request
for ...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/indian-government-mandates-use-of-open-source-software/
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There is potentially a lot of Open Source software in here !!!  If this
progresses and succeeds, this may possibly be one of the most important
milestone in the adoption of open source world wide.  It will be
interesting to see how the large Indian software developers, who have
long had close relationship with Microsoft and build their business
model on MS Proprietary software, adapt and react.

Cheers
Daniel