DesktopLinux: Richard Stallman on Kerala's Desktop Linux Adoption | Linux Today

DesktopLinux: Richard Stallman on Kerala’s Desktop Linux Adoption

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 7, 2006

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“To learn more about the recently reported migration of
computers in 12,500 high schools in the southern Indian state of
Kerala from Windows to GNU/Linux, prompted largely by the recent
visit to India of free software guru Richard M. Stallman,
DesktopLinux.com contacted Stallman for further details.

“Knowing that Stallman was still in the midst of his world
travels on his GNU/Linux mission, we contacted him via email in
France in an effort to follow up on our prior story about Kerala’s
Windows-to-GNU/Linux migration…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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