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When combined with the recent news of microsoft's recent announcent $400M investment in India plus Billy's $100M investment to help fight AIDS in India one has to wonder if India is *the* current war front in microsoft's war against open source to watch. There are so many these days :)

Of course these investments aren't really stretching either microsoft's or Billy's wallets at all. A drop in the bucket really. Lot's of money for India, though. I wonder if the powers that be thought that maybe spending more would catch too much of the wrong sort of attention? Anyone have any ideas on how much opening up the source to India would actually be worth to microsoft so we could get a more concrete idea just how much all of this is worth?

It really appears that microsoft is in damage-control mode in trying to stem the spread of open source contribution in one of the largest producers of software engineers in the world.

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