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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:51 AM
Subject: [LIG] NEWS: India neutral on Linux-MSN issue: Shourie
> India neutral on Linux-MSN issue: Shourie
>
> By Imran Qureshi, Indo-Asian News Service
>
> Bangalore, Apr 1 (IANS) India is neutral in the open source vs.
proprietary
> software debate and will adopt a policy that will serve the country
better,
> Minister for IT Arun Shourie said Tuesday.
>
> Making it clear that the government would not take a stand on supporting
> either the Linux or Microsoft platforms, he said no circular had been
issued
> by his ministry to support either.
>
> Shourie's statement is the first categorical one from the government,
<snip>
> He was speaking on the sidelines of a function to dedicate Param Padma, a
> one teraflop super computing cluster that is the largest in the
Asia-Pacific
> region outside Japan.
<snip>
> "If there is a security product that we need and supposing it is required
> immediately and someone else has it, are we going to say we will develop
it
> ourselves?" Shourie asked.
>
hummm..... quite a interesting idea on security!!
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jaybrata
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