Will not back open source to exclusion of proprietary software

source: Info world  1 April'2003 BANGALORE, INDIA 

The Indian government will not back open-source software to the 
exclusion of  proprietary software, according to Arun Shourie, 
India 's minister for information technology and communications. The 
government is a key buyer of information technology in the country, 
and backers of open-source software were hoping that the Indian 
government would throw its weight behind open source. 

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http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/01/HNindiagovt_1.html

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