"Researcher IDC recently surveyed more than 5000 developers from 116 countries, and found the use of open-source software to be 'pervasive, used by almost three-quarters of organisations and spanning hundreds of thousands of projects...'
"Government IT departments looking to cut costs associated with proprietary packages software are also being encouraged to embrace open-source software and, last week, India's communist-run Kerala state announced plans to reduce Microsoft's dominance in schools by promoting the use of Linux..."
