We should do what we can. Signature Campaign, Online Demo, Protest Banners with Freedom Walk in DU.
For now I think we should send the following to ILLL at the following address: http://www.illl.ac.in/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=1&Itemid=105 The email could also be sent to: Dr. Vimal Rarh<http://index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=198&Itemid=139> Academic Secretary, ILLL-ICT [email protected] "*We who are members of the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community wish to register our extreme anguish about the ongoing partnership of the ILLL-ICT with Microsoft Corporation.* * * *Ostensibly, designed to promote computer awareness among the Delhi University faculty, this course promotes Microsoft and proprietorial options as the only computing options available. Though on paper the course content does include some Open Source tools, it has been reported that in practice attention is focused only on proprietorial software particularly those designed by Microsoft.* * * *Delhi University being a publicly funded, publicly owned institution, this initiative of ILLL to promote Microsoft can be termed 'unethical' in the least. The ILLL-ICT-Microsoft initiative is also subvertive of earlier attempts of the Delhi University Computer Centre which had taken significant measures to promote the use of Free and Open Source Software in the university.* * * *We call upon the ILLL to shun such blatant Microsoft-propaganda in the future and would be only too willing to help the ILLL meet its commitment to spreading computer awareness through FOSS alternatives.*" PLease feel free to reword the mail.
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