Localized software to be given away for free in India

[IDNCowboy]

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/englishnews/114859/

This will even further computer use as they will be in languages other than Hindi as well.

[Rubber Duck]

Interesting quotes:

<<<Raman: The project was started by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and C-DAC was given the responsibility to do all the work for it. The starting point of this initiative is that people in India prefer to use their own language for computing.>>>

<<<Raman: A Punjabi version will be out by the end July or mid-August. Then we will have a Bengali language version. We are targeting all 22 languages in India, though to start with our focus is on the 11 languages that are used very extensively in computing.>>>


Thanks Jeff. People can say what they like about English dominating the Indian Internet. History will just prove them wrong.

[thegenius1]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Thanks Jeff. People can say what they like about English dominating the Indian Internet. History will just prove them wrong.

Duck its smoke screens or ignorance , i see it to often and im at the point were im about to stop addressing it , even though i cant stand misinformation , but alot of people try to play games in a effort to slow others down .. i feel sorry for anybody that buys those views !

[IDNCowboy]

It seems that jealousy will try to prevail sometimes as people will bash their native IDNs. They do this so they get a chance to get some premiums while there are still some left.

Look at posts from months back. Natives said:

Russian IDNs will never be used....
Chinese IDNs will never be used...
Japanese IDNs will never be used...