Well Binaya, I think the Universities and colleges can understand that Microsoft is a business oriented company. That means they also understand that every activity they are involved always has a strong business aspect. Also colleges and universities tend to follow open technologies and not be binded to any proprietary systems. So as long as the colleges and universities are conscious enough, Microsoft wont be a big problem.
But if the college administration cannot or does not want to see through all these, then the conscious students must make them aware that Microsoft just wants to suck away money from their students and do nothing more. Also, it is to be mentioned clearly that students should focus on learning new technology and not learning about some specific new product. The best stance would be constant exposure of students to open source by holding various training and advocacy campaigns. If the students find the knowledge of open technology a worthy asset, they would themselves demand that open systems be installed on their lab computers and not some proprietary systems. Regards, Sulabh Bista On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:20 PM, binaya raj <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have been thinking about the recent activity of Microsoft giving > serial keys of windows 7, windows xp, and many other products to the > college students through their so called ELMS server or say msdna. I > guess it is trying to attract many of college students by providing > the genuine windows and other products. And I think some of those who > are trying to switch to the open source are getting pulled by the > "Genuine" Microsoft products. Also, many college labs are going to be > reinstalled with genuine OS of Microsoft. > > In such situation, what can we do to increase the interest of students/ > colleges to the open source? We don't want the labs with Linux OS > replaced with Genuine Microsoft OS. So, I wanted to drag everyone's > attention to this. > > > Regards, > > Binaya Raj Shrestha > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [email protected]<foss-nepal%[email protected]> > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
