Sorry, I missed the fsf-friends address.
2008/12/16 Manilal K M libregeek@gmail.com:
2008/12/15 A Kannan. (CUSAT) forukannan@yahoo.com:
If the government had entrusted localization to a commercial software company , after inviting tenders and with a condition that the code developed is GPL , the task might have been over in a very short time.
Government has done this many times before. Some examples: FRIENDS Computerisation(C-DIT) KSEB Computerisation (M$ allies) and fortunately all ended in courts wasting public money.
The localisation will go on for ever and malayalam will eventually die.
Yes, the localisation will go for ever, as long as we have new programs and applications . But I don't think that language will die due to the localisation process. May be you have misunderstood the what localisation means.
-- Manilal K M : മണിലാല് കെ എം. http://libregeek.blogspot.com