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The state of Kerala, India, has opened Swatantra, the largest government FOSS center in the world. Swatantra falls under the auspices of Kerala's International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS). In 2001, Kerala adopted a formal, pro-FOSS technology policy.
'Swatantra', an initiative of International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), will house the FOSS incubation centre and training space. It is aimed at enhancing the government's agenda of promoting democratic access to information with the objective of sustainable economic development.
Earlier on SN:
Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M (2017)
Government of India Adopts FOSS Preferred Policy (2015)
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Monday March 04 2019, @06:25PM (6 children)
Sorry, but I'm not getting into the weeds on this. Runaway purposefully over-read a statement to create a sentiment I don't back. I responded that the context was more complicated. The blame game on India-Pakistan goes back fucking 70 years, more if you count ethno-religious disputes that existed long prior to their current form as nations.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Monday March 04 2019, @07:07PM (3 children)
You can probably blame the British who have the responsibility for the Partition of India [wikipedia.org], although some of the blame could probably be placed upon the Hindu and Muslim nationalist movements [wikipedia.org].
Could the British have done a better job? - quite probably yes. Would it have made a difference? - quite possibly not. In any event, the British were in charge and failed to produce an integrated society.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday March 04 2019, @08:55PM (2 children)
Well, yes, but...
As I understand it, before the British India wasn't a country, so calling the amalgamation of it into administrative districts that eventually turned into countries a partition sounds a bit wrong. You can find historic parallels for India being a nation (I'm not sure about Pakistan), but I'm not sure what the boundaries of those empires (they weren't countries) were.
IIUC, this isn't like the middle east where similar groups were split up and grouped with different groups to make things easier to control, but rather a place were lots of independent kingdoms and city-states were grouped together for administrative convenience. They didn't even speak mutually intelligible languages, which is why English ended up the official language of India when it became a country. The "Partition of India" that you are referring to happened in 1947, which is long after Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India. It was actually when Britain relinquished claim to rule India, and appears to have been an attempt to produce two religiously homogeneous countries. There were huge problems, but a single country might well have been worse.
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(Score: 1) by pTamok on Monday March 04 2019, @09:39PM (1 child)
India had been ruled as a (pretty much) single entity under previous empires (The Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire). The British obtained power over the inhomogenous India states/principalities via the East India Company, but following the Indian Rebellion of 1858, the British government took direct rule. From 1858 to 1947 the British had full power over the Indian Subcontinent. The Partition of 1947 was a terrible misstep but opinions differ as to whether it was inevitable or not [wikipedia.org]. Nonetheless, the British ruled India for long enough that the events that led up to the Partition were squarely during their rule and the British did not see what the consequences of their mismanagement of India would be - or if they did see them, didn't care. So the British administration was either incompetent or deliberately negligent.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday March 04 2019, @10:04PM
If you were administrator of Israel, how would you address the conflicting religions?
Sometimes there isn't an obvious answer.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday March 04 2019, @08:27PM (1 child)
Not to mention the story we're discussing is in Kerala.
It would be pretty damn hard to be any further away from that scary border and still be in India!
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday March 04 2019, @08:31PM
I wanted to focus on India's sustainability plans because English language sources about it suck ass.
But I had to mention current eventsTM so now we're here.