Comments on: Open-source PCs take a passage to India

Desktops pre-installed with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and other open-source applications will be sold in the country.

[Captain_Spock]

How will Indian Nationals...

... with the native tougues such as Telugu, in addition to Hindi and Tamil languages communicate with; lets say, persons that read, write and speak only "International English" this being one of the accepted international languages throughout the world? With the integration of translation software packages perhaps!

[b2bhandshake]

English...the business Lingua franca?!

Yes...this probably assumes that english will be the business Lingua franca used though it may also spur the Open Source community to work towards integration of translation software packages.

- Mohan
www.garamchai.com/mohan

[Captain_Spock]

How will Indian Nationals...

... with the native tongues such as Telugu, in addition to Hindi and Tamil languages communicate with; lets say, persons that read, write and speak only "International English" this being one of the accepted international languages throughout the world? With the integration of translation software packages perhaps!