Carrying on its open source CD distribution project, the government of India has created 3.5 million open source CDs in the Hindi language. (The main applications included are OpenOffice, Firefox, GAIM, and Columba.) The previous CD, in Tamil, also reached 3.5 million copies, up from the 3 million earlier reported. In August, a Punjabi version is scheduled to be launched.

ZDNet UK reports.

Technetra covers the launch ceremony.

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