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                Indian FOSS Timelines, Organizations and Projects
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    Indian FOSS: Timelines

This is an attempt to cover the history of Indian FOSS

1984: Richard Stallman creates GNU
1980s: TeX (softare in public domain) introduced into Kerala by Prof. K.S.S. Namburipad of the Department of Mathematics in the University of Kerala. Source
1991: Linus Torvalds releaes Linux Kernel
1996: Atul Chitnis and Kishore Bhargava convince CyberMedia (PC Quest) to distribute Linux CDs. Over a million CDs distributed over a span of 10 years. People stood in queues in front of newstands to get a copy of PCQuest.
1998: PCQ swaps Slackware Linux with Red Hat Linux.
1998-2000: Linux user groups (LUGs) start forming in all major cities [pending: link