[LIG] Indian, Pakistan... parallel thinking on GNU/Linux

>From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
>To: pluc@linux.com.pk, "" <linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Cc: fsf-friends@gnu.org.in
>Subject: [LIG] Indian, Pakistan... parallel thinking on GNU/Linux
>Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:41:30 +0530 (IST)
>
>URL : http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20030601.shtml#39263
>
>
>
> Pakistan Putting Money Into Linux
>
> [map-pakistan.jpg]
> Our Pakistani correspondent, [49]Tariq Mustafa, writes to say that the
> new Pakistani national budget has $2.5 million in it for Linux.
>
> It's all part of a $54 million (Rs 3.25 billion) proposal covering 120
> different projects in Information Technology and sciences for the
> coming year, according to the [50]Daily Times of Pakistan.
>
> Linux even gets its own line-item in the IT budget, according to the
> Daily Times story.
>
> You may remember a few weeks ago that I wrote about how India's
> President faced down Bill Gates over the issue, saying that his
> country needed to control its own computing destiny and that software
> controlled by an outsider (i.e. Windows) could not provide that.
>
> The big news here is that Pakistan agrees. Now perhaps they might
> settle their other differences. (I know, Tariq -- it's not that
> simple. But just [51]Imagine...)
>
> [52]Dana Blankenhorn
>
>
> 49. http://pakistan.blogspot.com/
> 50. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_9-6-2003_pg7_41
> 51. http://www.merseyworld.com/imagine/lyrics/imagine.htm
> 52. http://www.a-clue.com/
>
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