Its a waste of money in all ways, why spend a lot in those craps made from some company that can't even support a super computer.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Mathew Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > This is really unfortunate. We must do something against this!. It is pure > wastage of money.. > > > On 3 July 2012 14:14, V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Friends, >> >> Today's newspaper says that the state government is discussing with >> Microsoft for collaborating in education, e-governance and what-not. >> This is supposed to bring transparency into governance. But this >> discussion itself appears very opaque. It is not at all clear what is >> wrong with the present system that uses Free Software in education. And >> it is strange that they think that Microsoft can bring transparency into >> e-governance. The result will be that the government will pay tons of >> money to the company as licence fees since all schools will have to >> migrate back to Windoze et al. Moreover, all teachers will have to be >> retrained, textbooks will have to be rewritten, and worst of all, it >> would be virtually impossible to bring Free Software back not only into >> schools but also into higher education. It is to be remembered that >> many, if not most research labs in India use GNU/Linux for their >> scientific computation and most advertisements for positions in these >> labs ask for knowledge of GNU/Linux and some scripting languages. So, >> will this mean that our students won't find it easy to apply for these >> positions? Finally, the national education policy itself speaks about >> encouraging Free Software and sharing. So where is the need to go to >> Microsoft now? >> >> Friends, we need to do something about this. I know that with this >> government, it won't be easy to push for Free Software, but we certainly >> cannot remain silent spectators to this looting. >> >> It would be good if someone can start a representation to the government >> and post it to the group or a wiki, so that others can work on it as we >> used to do and send it to the Chief Minister, Education Minister and >> others. And, perhaps, we can start a media campaign too. Ideas welcome. >> >> Best, >> Sasi >> -- >> V. Sasi Kumar >> Free Software Foundation of India >> http://swatantryam.blogspot.com >> >> >> -- >> "Freedom is the only law". >> "Freedom Unplugged" >> http://www.ilug-tvm.org >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "ilug-tvm" group. >> To control your subscription visit >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> For details visit the google group page: >> http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en >> > > -- > "Freedom is the only law". > "Freedom Unplugged" > http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > To control your subscription visit > http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > > For details visit the google group page: > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > -- Techstream <http://techstream.org/> -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
