['Ware -- crossposting]

Today's TOI has a editorial piece on Microsoft that mentions Linux quite favourably.

<excerpt> [that] could open one more front in Microsoft's ongoing war against Linux, a free, open-source operating system. Mr Gates has been dismissive of Linux, but other commentators are not so sanguine. As the Economist recently noted, "Linux has limited the progress of Windows in the server market, as governments and big firms have found it to be not only less costly but more flexible and more secure."

While Mr Gates was still in India, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh announced that all of MP government's schemes would use Linux software. In Mr Singh's words, it was not a question of Microsoft versus Linux but of choosing between free software and a monopoly. </excerpt>

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=289...

Glad to see that Linux is being touted for openness and not just price by the mainstream press too.

-- Raju