Hi all, I understand that this is a Python group and not a free software group. But there are quite a few free software enthusiasts here, and they might already know/like to know the news. So, I apologise upfront, for posting this off-topic information.
But Microsoft, has made a pact with AICTE, by which all college approved my AICTE will have to mandatorily use office 365+MS's cloud email solution. I came to know about this when my alma mater, Thiagarajar College of Engineering where we have been running our own mail servers with just free software was asked to migrate to AICTE by pointing the MX records to some domain of Microsoft. Here is the release from AICTE - http://www.aicte-india.org/downloads/AICTE_notice.pdf Here is an article about this on Microsoft's site - http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Office-365/All-India-Council-for-Technical-Education/India-Institute-Deploys-7.5-Million-Office-365-Seats-to-Improve-Governance-Learning/710000002268 Linux Users Group, Chennai and a few other LUGs are also discussing this issue. Would like to know if people here suggest something to counter this. Thanks -- Thank you Balachandran Sivakumar Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached. - Swami Vivekananda Mail: benignb...@gmail.com Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
