“The Indian government seems to be taking a leaf out of China’s operating system, and is planning a countrywide drive to promote the open source operating system, Linux, as the ‘platform of choice’ instead of ‘proprietary’ solutions …
The Department of Information Technology has already devised a strategy to introduce Linux and open source software as a de-facto standard in academic institutions, especially in engineering colleges through course work that encourages use of such systems.”
Link: Economic Times of India
