The Indian State of Kerala is taking its open source initiative further. Red Hat is going to help them in training the technical staff in government organizations. This includes everything from teaching Linux to enable them to build their own open source solutions.
Hopefully this will introduce open source in educational institutions too. I have seen instances when students got penalized because the institutions were unable to cope up with cost of upgrades. Open source is a perfect solution for this. I hope others follow.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
[...] have been writing about using open source in education and I hope it happens earlier in developing countries. There are many talks about proprietary software being dirt cheap for educational purposes. But [...]