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Indian State Has Solution to End of Win XP Support

posted by janrinok on Monday March 24 2014, @02:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the linux-is-the-boss dept.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @12:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @12:34AM (#20789)

    You might have a point *if* BOSS didn't cost $0 (or Rs0, if you will).[1]
    Tamil Nadu started with Linux in 2007. [google.com]
    BOSS evolved a couple of years later and its use has been growing steadily.

    With a now-obsolete M$ OS, why export yet more money to Redmond to get software that will become obsolete and require yet another round of expenditures down the road?
    ...not to mention new hardware to run the latest version of Windoze.
    Why not keep all that money in your own region?
    Why not nurture the expertise in your region and grow your own tech sector?

    Linux adoption, where there is commitment, is like a rising tide.
    Wanna see how that goes?

    Take a look at the autonomous Spanish region of Extremadura. [google.com]
    After a few years using FOSS apps on state-owned machines, they switched 80,000 boxes to Linux in one weekend.

    Take a look at Munich. Over 95 percent of the city's machines run Linux.
    They've already saved over 10 million Euros.
    ...and it appears they are still looking to get rid of any software for which they don't have the source code.

    [1] ...and, of course, there's all the silly restrictions about how you can use "your" software with EULAware.

    -- gewg_