[News] Kerala (Population 31 Million) Chooses Linux?
Roy Schestowitz
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| PC sellers, smarting at Microsoft for juggling them in a legal trapez,
| are now looking upon an 83-year old crusader to settle their old scores
| with the IT behemoth. Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan is on a trip
| to develop the state as India's FOSS (Free and Open Software Systems)
| destination, with backing from National Informatics Centre (NIC).
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| FOSS is a niche market but today's niche is tomorrow's mass market, and was
| a hardware seller's delighted quip to the Kerala government's move, hardly
| months after a Microsoft crackdown on free supply of pirated software by
| dealers. "Offers of pre-loaded Linux operating system could yield good
| hardware sales margins," says PK Harikrishnan, president, Kochi-based All
| Kerala Computer Manufacturer and Dealers Association.
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I have just looked up < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala >. Population of
31 million.