Having spent some time in India dealing with scattered govt. Windows infrastructure, this is amazing news. This may also open up many new opportunities in computer education and literacy which is very deficient in the country. I really hope this switch does happen.
Which I read as the point that the parent post was making: India can 'pull itself up by its bootstraps' by using the pool of Linux/BSD oriented developers to help a large scale migration project thus further developing the skills base.
