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India blocks GitHub, after lobbying done by copyright trolls (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Who cares if nobody can work, the important is that those illegal streams are blocked

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[-] Kleptomaniacal 47 points 11 months ago

Indian here.

Most government organisations in India have shifted to using linux (primarily ubuntu) because they didn't want to pay hefty license fees to microsoft and to buy new PCs, since almost all of their computers either ran Windows 7 or XP.

[-] txtsd@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

Could you provide sources for this? I still see government computers running old windows.

[-] Kleptomaniacal 15 points 11 months ago

https://www.opensourceforu.com/2011/11/indian-supreme-court-opts-for-ubuntu-10-04/

Indian Courts have been using Ubuntu for over a decade.

https://news.itsfoss.com/indian-govt-linux-windows/

The Indian armed forces are evaluating the shift to an Ubuntu-based distro that is developed locally this august.

[-] txtsd@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

I know that the first one hasn't held up. I know a few people in the high court circles who have no idea what Linux is and exclusively use AND are asked to use windows specific software.

The second link looks promising. Thanks for sharing!

[-] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

To use Linux at the military just makes sense. I used to write software for a military contractor and the SW was only deployed on hardened RedHat. I thought to myself that this is a rare case of the military being smarter than the private sector :D