Slowly and gradually India is also joining open source. Kerala the 100% literate state in India . If we will follow the statistics by the year 2011 everyone of us will be some using open source software on your mobile, desktop, or TV sets.

“We have decided that we will use only free software for computer education in Kerala schools. We have implemented the Linux platform in high schools; it will be implemented in other schools step by step,” Kerala Education Minister M A Baby. We want to make Kerala the FOSS (Free and Open Software Systems) destination in India. That is all

By throwing out Microsoft from high school desktops, Kerala is following the footsteps of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Goa, West Bengal, and Delhi, who are also in the thick of bringing Linux to schools.

In MP, nearly 2,600 primary schools are given computers with a Hindi language interface on Linux platforms. Rajasthan is already pushing it in 4,000 schools.

By 2008, 56,000 schoolteachers in the Kerala will be trained in Linux and students in the 2,650 government and government-aided high schools will be taught the open-source code software,” said Shankaran Nair, director of IT@school, responsible for promoting IT education in schools.

It’s important to mention that free software guru Richard Stallman is virtually the consultant to the Kerala government’s IT initiatives.

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