Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Now that GNOME (via pango) and KDE (via the upcoming Qt 3.2.0) have viable > support, I wonder if there is any interest in a sub-project for increasing > the support for Indian languages within Debian?
Good news come from India about this: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/29/1226247.shtml President Of India Advocates OSS I am sure this is a first. The President of India has urged [3] Indian IT Professionals to develop and specialise in OSS rather than Windows. To be noted is that he made the speech[4] (look for the "Think Different" section) at the famous Indian Institute of Information Technology (India's foremost academic institution equivalent to MIT). Also he reminisces that his meeting with Mr. Gates were difficult due to differing views concerning OSS and Security. What should be noted about him is that he is not a politician, but a scientist and an independent thinker foremost. 3. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=47799819 4. http://presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/others/may28_2003_2.htm http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/06272215.htm India urged to take 'Open source' road In an ongoing battle between proprietary and open source software, experts of open source software today said India must move towards adopting open source as it is affordable. Policy makers however claimed that there was scope for both systems. "While open source would be helpful for countries like India as it is free and the total cost of ownership is low, it is an irony that it has not taken off in India", S Raghunathan, principal secretary, IT, government of Delhi said here at a conference on Open source organised by MAIT. Regards, Joey -- Life is too short to run proprietary software. -- Bdale Garbee
