Kerala government has officially decided to embrace Linux.
Redhat to assist Kerala Government.
Red Hat Inc. is to help the communist government of Kerala, in southwestern India, to deploy open-source software in its e-governance and literacy efforts.
The Kerala government will make all efforts to develop free software, and will use free and open-source software in e-governance projects, according to a draft state IT policy released in January.
The Indian federal government, in contrast, has refrained from taking sides in favor of either open-source or proprietary software. Microsoft Corp., for example, is running a program in the country, called Project Shiksha, to train teachers and students in government-run schools in the use of information technology. But some research labs run by the government work on open source projects.
If and when UDF takes over after the term of this government(Malayalees would like to get exploited equally by both sides – equal opportunity) would they kick out linux and have microsoft back in?
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