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 --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> See http://weblog.flora.ca/ for announcements, activities, and opinions Speaking next in Toronto: Rabble Rumble on Digital Copyright Reform http://www.digital-copyright.ca/discuss/all?subject=Rabble -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
