> you have no rights to question us why ! " As a student you don't have enough rights to question them. Staff's who feel comfortable with Proprietary software were never against Free software. The only thing required is to educate, train and support them.
If you wish, I can speak to them and can even make them to understand the importance of Free software, if you provide the details of your college and staff to me privately. > "Moreover Anna University ( to which the college is affiliated ) has > clearly given the option > to opt Wind0w$ as lab requirements (http://goo.gl/gJxKS) " > > Syllabus is controlled by the university, and all its affiliated > colleges are following its norms. > Since the university itself indirectly promoted the proprietary > software , I can't speak anymore. > In India, colleges are controlled by Universities and our Universities are acting as agents of Proprietary software companies to promote their products. Colleges who knows this very well are keeping silent, as they say, they can't do anything against University as they are affiliated. So we can't blame colleges in this matter. > If someone here able to pass this message to Anna University > please do it and bring some change in its norms. > So far I have initiated the FOSS migration process in more than 200+ engineering colleges in Tamilnadu and got good results / feedback and I personally feel that, the best way to bring the change is to directly approach colleges instead of going with University. If you don't wish to see this happening anymore, you should not bare, instead you have fight against this. -- S. Baskar Chief Executive Officer LinuXpert Systems Twitter : http://twitter.com/linuxbaskar LinkedIN : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/baskar-selvaraj/21/881/b29 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
