The Financial Express: Kerala Logs Microsoft Out

"After the cola ban, it is now the turn of Microsoft to log out of Kerala. Children in 12,500 high schools in the state, India's most literate, will not be taught Windows. Instead, instructors are lining up Linux for them. This is because Kerala has chalked out a plan for migrating its high school students to free software platforms in three years.

"Although Linux was already blipping on the Kerala IT@School project radar, and the plans of VS Achuthanandan's government to develop the state as a Foss (free and open software systems) destination has expedited the open software plans..."

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