On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 Charles-H.Schulz wrote : [...] >Rajesh, aside the state of Kerala, is there any other initiatives coming >from local states similar to this one? (besides the successful and >famous distributions of CDs in Tamil and Hindi of course)
OpenOffice on the CDs might work, but the CDs themselves are largely a publicity gimmick, and pretty worthless in my opinion. Half of the stuff in it does not install properly, some of the fonts overwrite system fonts in Windows and do not uninstall properly. There is no clear licensing policy for the software, and the TDIL (Technology Development in Indian Languages: a division of the Ministry of IT of the Government of India) people do not seem to have a clear roadmap of what they are doing, nor do they show any particular inclination to support FLOSS. There was a rather scathing review of the Hindi CD in a Hindi newspaper local to Delhi. It is a crying shame really, as at least the fonts from the CDs would have been useful if released under an open-source licence, or even into the public domain. Don't let the hype carry you away. Regards, Gora
