[Fsf-friends] Fwd: [ILUG-GOA] Indian state to bypass Microsoft 'monopoly'

[Vimal Joseph]

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From: Edgar D' Souza
Date: Aug 30, 2006 3:19 PM
Subject: [ILUG-GOA] Indian state to bypass Microsoft 'monopoly'
To: ilug-goa at yahoogroups.com

"
 In a new attack on multinational corporations, the Communist
 government in India's southern state of Kerala is campaigning to
 eliminate Microsoft from use in public institutions, just weeks after
 it imposed a ban on Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
 "
 http://news.com.com/Indian+state+to+bypass+Microsoft+monopoly/2100-1016_3-6110752.html?tag=newsmap

 Naturally, Linux is the shoo-in replacement that the Kerala government
 is encouraging schools to use.

the GNU/Linux distribution made for Schools can be downloaded from :
http://www.edugrid.ac.in/webfolder/download/schoolGnu/slgnu.html