Free Software for India

Posted by dave on May 31, 2005 7:39 AM EDT
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Brazil's position as the leading developing world champion of Free/Open Source Software may soon by challenged by India. The Indian government has begun distributing free CDs with localized versions of a variety of F/OSS applications. The first set of CDs contain Tamil-language versions of Firefox, OpenOffice, an email utility and a dictionary, as well as a variety of Tamil fonts. Hindi will be next, with all 22 official languages of India covered eventually.

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