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Moneycontrol.com: Govt Hesitant to Endorse Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 11, 2004

“The govt is shying away from endorsing the free software
movement, though IBM is sponsoring a resource centre for Open
Source software along with IIT Bombay and the C-DAC…

“While Indian academia has always been gung-ho about Linux, the
Indian government has decided not to go the whole hog like Brazil
and China have, by officially endorsing Open Source…”


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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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