India is introducing a Data Protection Bill (based on the GDPR, but with controversial exemptions for the government itself), so companies could be restructuring their IT systems. As to why India is high in general, our government has had a policy of encouraging free software for quite some time. Most schools and many government offices use either Ubuntu or BOSS (Debian with improved support for Indian languages).
To be fair, I think the main reasons they support FOSS are (a) saving on licence fees and (b) not being dependent on a foreign company, which can be forced to stop supporting our infrastructure if we piss off the US / China.
Oh that’s interesting, exposing kids to it is a great idea because then they won’t have the whole barrier of the ‘fear of the unknown’ when considering installing it on their own PC. Thanks for sharing!
India is introducing a Data Protection Bill (based on the GDPR, but with controversial exemptions for the government itself), so companies could be restructuring their IT systems. As to why India is high in general, our government has had a policy of encouraging free software for quite some time. Most schools and many government offices use either Ubuntu or BOSS (Debian with improved support for Indian languages).
That’s amazing.
Here in Brazil, we had the government encouraging free software in the 2000s, but the projects and policies were all abandoned.
And to think we could have a similar adoption to yours today… sigh…
Back then, people didn’t understand how such projects give benefits in a long timeframe, and wanted immediate results, something impossible.
To be fair, I think the main reasons they support FOSS are (a) saving on licence fees and (b) not being dependent on a foreign company, which can be forced to stop supporting our infrastructure if we piss off the US / China.
But still good reasons, anyway.
Oh that’s interesting, exposing kids to it is a great idea because then they won’t have the whole barrier of the ‘fear of the unknown’ when considering installing it on their own PC. Thanks for sharing!