Indian Defence Ministry set to replace windows with home-grown "Maya OS"

https://lemmy.world/post/2923043

This won’t end well…

Not because of Linux or Windows, but because India’s government is one of the most corrupt in the world, and everyone is just going to get bribed into saying “this is great” and it’ll get implemented without any flaws being addressed

but because India’s government is one of the most corrupt in the world

This same country also has a space organization that is well-respected all around the world. If we can launch rockets, we sure as hell can build a secure Linux based distro lol.

Half the mobile rom teams are Indian devs

We have some serious manpower for cheap, that’s smart, development/employment focused, and intuitive

No doubt about it. Indian devs all over open source. But do you really think they will recruit the FOSS crew when contracting time comes lol

I want to make my own thing with their DE

stuff based on opensuse as a base(leap for workstation, tumbleweed for consumer and enterprise for enterprise users, see how it shapes out