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(Created page with "[https://swatantryam.blogspot.com/2007/08/story-of-free-software-in-kerala-india.html?m=1 Original Source] My thoughts about Freedom and Free Software. == Friday, August 31, 2007 == === The Story of Free Software in Kerala, India === This is the story of Free Software in the state of Kerala in India. I wrote this for a book entitled ''Knowledge Society and Development -- Kerala Experience'' edited by Antony Palackal of Loyola College, Thiruvananthapuram, and Wesley Sh...") |
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'''Free Software in Kerala''' | '''Free Software in Kerala''' | ||
V. Sasi Kumar | [[Dr V SasiKumar|Dr. V. Sasi Kumar]] | ||
A friend, who had worked in Brazil for a couple of years, once told me, “Kerala is known in Latin America for Free Software.” This indicates the extent to which Kerala has dominated the Free Software scenario in India. It is not by chance that the headquarters of the Free Software Foundation of India happened to be situated at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. The state is now poised to become the first in the country to introduce exclusively Free Software for IT education in high schools. We shall examine here how all this came about. But before that, we shall look at what the term Free Software1 means. Free Software is software that gives users freedom-four freedoms, to be precise. As the website of the Free Software Foundation (<nowiki>http://www.gnu.org</nowiki>) says: | A friend, who had worked in Brazil for a couple of years, once told me, “Kerala is known in Latin America for Free Software.” This indicates the extent to which Kerala has dominated the Free Software scenario in India. It is not by chance that the headquarters of the Free Software Foundation of India happened to be situated at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. The state is now poised to become the first in the country to introduce exclusively Free Software for IT education in high schools. We shall examine here how all this came about. But before that, we shall look at what the term Free Software1 means. Free Software is software that gives users freedom-four freedoms, to be precise. As the website of the Free Software Foundation (<nowiki>http://www.gnu.org</nowiki>) says: | ||