On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:19 PM, benedict nicholas <[email protected]> wrote: > 2. Is FOSS subject, a part of curriculum in Colleges/Universities abroad?
In universities abroad, generally there is no separate subject/course teaching Open Source. However, people encourage / use a number of open-source tools/applications (e.g. moodle, mediawiki, *nix) for their regular courses (I am yet to see a lab/univ using turboC ;) ). They also strive to open-source whatever work they produce from their research. In fact , off-late there are a number of research groups who push themselves to publish reproducible results; i.e. one can pick up their tools, code and some platform details and reproduce the results in-order to facilitate improvements by other research groups around the globe. Some university have Open Source labs like http://open.utoronto.ca/ and http://osuosl.org/ There might be _very_ special(ised) cases where they have a separate course titled "Free and Open Source Software". I am not aware of many. Hope that helps. Regards, Aanjhan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
