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prospectacle writes about another possible shift from Win XP to Linux:
"With Microsoft ceasing to support Windows XP, the Tamil Nadu state government has advised its departments to switch to Bharat Operating System Solutions, also known as BOSS Linux.
BOSS Linux is developed by India's "National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software", which is financed by their Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. BOSS supports national languages including Bengali, Telugu, and Tamil.
Why would you develop your own entire operating system when you can just buy the newest version from Microsoft?"
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by bucc5062 on Monday March 24 2014, @03:00PM
"Why would you develop your own entire operating system when you can just buy the newest version from Microsoft?"
perhaps for this reason?
"BOSS supports national languages including Bengali, Telugu, and Tamil.". Also you are not so dependent on a company changing the interface at whim (looking at you /.), pulling games with licensing, and charging $$$ for support?
That's why and a few more.
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Monday March 24 2014, @05:15PM
But the call to Microsoft tech support would be local.