Kerala, India puts kibosh on Microsoft after Coke and Pepsi

Kerala, India recently made headlines for instituting a state ban on the sale and production of Coca-Cola and Pepsi products. Now, they're banning Microsoft from state-run schools:

"We have decided that we will use only free software for computer education in Kerala schools. We have implemented the Linux platform in high schools; it will be implemented in other schools step by step," Kerala Education Minister M A Baby told rediff.com.

He said an estimated 56,000 teachers in high schools are getting trained on the Linux platform. Here on, nearly 1.5 million students in the 2,650 government and government-aided high schools in the state will no longer use the Windows platform for computer education. Instead, they have switched over to the free GNU/Linux software.

Link (thanks, Sameer)