Z:gnu-www-ja-nit-india--1b3de2-Governments fund the large fra/en

Governments fund the large fraction of all the software developments in the world and except in the rare cases where the software has to be kept secret. It could just as well be free software. So we should be spreading the word in academia. When you have a project to develop some software, it must be free software. It's an ethical requirement to make it free software.