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Having spent some time in India dealing with scattered govt. Windows infrastructure, this is amazing news. This may also open up many new opportunities in computer education and literacy which is very deficient in the country. I really hope this switch does happen.

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Some of the best hackers I know are in India, and they don't use Microsoft products... I'm talking truly gifted people.

I myself am a BSD fanatic, but I recommend Linux based systems to all of my Windows using friends.

This might be because you are an Indian and the only hackers you know are Indian.

Which I read as the point that the parent post was making: India can 'pull itself up by its bootstraps' by using the pool of Linux/BSD oriented developers to help a large scale migration project thus further developing the skills base.

Some of the best hackers I know are in India, and they use Microsoft products... I'm talking truly gifted people.

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