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:BBC News: India Lays Down 'Open' Challenge
BBC News: India Lays Down 'Open' Challenge
May 12, 2006, 19 :00 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (7698 reads)

(Other stories by Bill Thompson)

[ Thanks to stewart for this link. ]

"I'd come to India with the sense that, like Brazil and other countries outside the West that are taking free software seriously, India is moving into a new phase in its use of free and open source software.

"These guys--and it was a boy's night out, though there are women members of the group too--are using the freedom which the Linux distribution licence gives them to build tools and technologies for themselves..."

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Related Stories:
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This is simply hard-core FOSS bashing. D ...   Skip the article   
Flash
May 12, 2006, 20:07:11
 
Okay, the first SIX paragraphs are about ...   WTF?!?   
Brandioch Conner
May 12, 2006, 21:57:33
 
This kind of article is one indication o ...   This man is a commentator on technology?   
Sam Varghese
May 13, 2006, 03:07:36
 
It seems the purpose of the article was  ...   Why bother?   
Shankar
May 13, 2006, 17:26:43
 
He doesn't understand the FLOSS comm ...   Bill misses the mark   
wildpossum
May 14, 2006, 03:44:11
 
Lightheaded and useless with incorrect f ...   Learn more before writing   
Robin DeSilva
May 14, 2006, 08:20:30
 
This is not journalism - why not spend t ...   Sounds like a soap opera   
Sandeep
May 14, 2006, 08:24:13
 
Why waste the readers time!  ...   Useless coverage   
Flash
May 14, 2006, 08:26:06
 
> Why waste the readers time!That's  ...   Re: Useless coverage   
Flash (or is it?)
May 14, 2006, 17:44:16
 
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