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Indian Defence Ministry set to replace windows with home-grown "Maya OS" (news.itsfoss.com)

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[–] laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Because they aren't doing it to control the package repo, they are doing it to score nationalism points.

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[–] b1tstremist0@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Guess what, nationalism and security go together for all the right reasons.

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