Hi RMS,
Bangalore One is a major e-governance project, which went to Microsoft, in Bangalore, India.
It appears that a group of technical people, including some expats (Indians based overseas) have now gone to court, challenging the manner in which a huge contract was awarded to Microsoft.
It's nice to see citizens -- and those not necessarily involved with Free Software/Open Source themselves -- waking up to the implications of proprietorial software in the Third World.
The information I posted is based on what I received. I don't have additional details, but this seems like one development that needs to be kept track of. FN
============================================================ From: "Richard M. Stallman" rms@gnu.org Date: 2005/12/21 Wed AM 11:00:32 GMT+05:30 To: fred@bytesforall.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: PIL against Bangalore One (long)
I can read the words, but I don't understand what it means. I gave up after about 10%. ============================================================
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