On 13 Oct 2002, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:

> They had to use M$ products on the boxes as they needed localised
> office, browser, email clients etc. 

  I got the impression that they did some of that localization themselves.

> That was quite easy in Win* because technology in Free Software is quite
> behind Win in terms of localisation, especially indic language support.

  Who did this work?  Who funded it?  Would this not be something useful 
to get a grant for, and release freely to encourage ICT usage in India?

> Of course, in Bangla, we might be able to turn the tables on M$,
> because, ultimately, the first bangla OS may be a Free OS :D

  Would be great to see this pushed for the other indic languages as well.

> -iti-
> sdg


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