[Fsf-friends] Indian, Pakistan... parallel thinking on GNU/Linux
Frederick Noronha (FN)
fred@bytesforall.org
Sun Jun 15 09:41:30 IST 2003
URL : http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20030601.shtml#39263
Pakistan Putting Money Into Linux
[map-pakistan.jpg]
Our Pakistani correspondent, [49]Tariq Mustafa, writes to say that the
new Pakistani national budget has $2.5 million in it for Linux.
It's all part of a $54 million (Rs 3.25 billion) proposal covering 120
different projects in Information Technology and sciences for the
coming year, according to the [50]Daily Times of Pakistan.
Linux even gets its own line-item in the IT budget, according to the
Daily Times story.
You may remember a few weeks ago that I wrote about how India's
President faced down Bill Gates over the issue, saying that his
country needed to control its own computing destiny and that software
controlled by an outsider (i.e. Windows) could not provide that.
The big news here is that Pakistan agrees. Now perhaps they might
settle their other differences. (I know, Tariq -- it's not that
simple. But just [51]Imagine...)
[52]Dana Blankenhorn
49. http://pakistan.blogspot.com/
50. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_9-6-2003_pg7_41
51. http://www.merseyworld.com/imagine/lyrics/imagine.htm
52. http://www.a-clue.com/
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