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Election Commission of India votes for Open Source

by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2006-08-21 12:47 PM

Contributors: INDRANIL CHAKRABORTY

KOLKATA, AUG 19: Who can ignore Richard Stallman's cry for freedom and for free software? At least not the Election Commission of India, one of the pillars of democracy created by the Constitution.

With Stallman, a passionate evangelist of the Open Source software movement, in India on a proselytising mission, the Election Commission has decided to uninstall Microsoft Office applications from its entire workspace and replace them with the free OpenOffice.

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Source: The Financial Express