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posted by martyb on Monday March 04 2019, @04:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the information-wants-to-be-free dept.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @06:44PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @06:44PM (#809909)

    Hahahahah

    racist little runaway was born in the wrong century, the crusades were a long time ago dooderino

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @06:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @06:55PM (#809917)

    and the musrats are starting shit again.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:38PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:38PM (#809938)

    Not that long... A little over 17 years, or about 71, if you wanna get real. No wait, it was after the fall of the Ottoman empire. Yeah, that's it.

    • (Score: 1) by pTamok on Monday March 04 2019, @09:02PM

      by pTamok (3042) on Monday March 04 2019, @09:02PM (#809976)

      Well, perhaps not the Ottoman Empire. Possibly the Ghanznaids [wikipedia.org], or maybe even as far back as the Samanid Empire. [wikipedia.org]