Re: DoE and Linux

[gopi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gopi K Garge)]

Atul,

	AFAIK, it is more of an "afraid to admit" kind of situation
	at the MIT. There's ERNET using Linux, heard about NIC users
	using Linux, the Tech Dev for Indian Languages (TDIL) is planning
	to encourage Linux in a big way (and has their mail server
	running Linux) and more. ILUG-DEL would agree 
	if I said that DoE .. Ooops MIT showed a pro-linux tendency.
	What say ?

--Gopi

Atul Chitnis sez:

> This message has nothing to do with Linux as such, but it may be of
> interest to people in India and abroad that apparently, the Department of
> Electronics is no more - it is now called the Ministry of Information
> Technology (imaginatively abbreviated to MIT).

> What interests me is that there doesn't seem to be a single reference to
> Linux anywhere on that site. If anyone knows anyone at the DoE/MIT, could
> we start a campaign to get at least *some* info on Linux onto their site?
> Linux is very important to India, but unless the DoE/MIT starts waking up
> to that fact, official recognition for Linux seems a bit far off.

> Atul

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