[Fsf-friends] Re: Re: [Fwd: PIL against Bangalore One (long)

Frederick Noronha fred@antispam.org
Wed Dec 21 18:52:54 IST 2005


Hi RMS,

Bangalore One is a major e-governance project, which went to Microsoft, in Bangalore, India.

It appears that a group of technical people, including some expats (Indians based overseas) have now gone to court, challenging the manner in which a huge contract was awarded to Microsoft.

It's nice to see citizens -- and those not necessarily involved with Free Software/Open Source themselves -- waking up to the implications of proprietorial software in the Third World.

The information I posted is based on what I received. I don't have additional details, but this seems like one development that needs to be kept track of. FN

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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms at gnu.org>
Date: 2005/12/21 Wed AM 11:00:32 GMT+05:30
To: fred at bytesforall.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: PIL against Bangalore One (long)

I can read the words, but I don't understand what it means.
I gave up after about 10%.
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