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On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for all the people behind it. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Bhuvan Krishna <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:52 AM > Subject: [fosscomm] AICTE removes the mandatory clause from the notice > on implementing office 365 > To: [email protected] > > > Dear friends, > > A delegation from the Free Software Movement of India and other groups > have submitted a representation demanding the revision of the decision > of the AICTE making the usage of Office-365 mandatory on the 30th of > April 2013. > > A group of young parliamentarians led by P Rajeev also made a > representation to the AICTE chairman raising concerns that were > similar on 07-05-13. The signatories include Rajeev Chandrasekhar, > Sitaram Yechury, KN Balagopal, PK Biju CP Narayanan, Prashantho > Chatterjee, Tapan Sen, Dr T Seema and MP Achutan. > > We understand that the AICTE has now agreed and is removing the > mandatory clause from the notice. We welcome this decision. However, > we demand that AICTE should revise the decision of using Office-365 > totally, as it is not in the interest of the students, institutions > and colleges. AICTE as a public funded body should not engage in > supporting proprietary systems. > > We also thank all those in the academia, intellectuals, developer > community, policy makers and parliamentarians who have taken it up > with AICTE for revising the decision. > > > http://fsmi.in/content/aicte-removes-mandatory-clause-notice-implementing-office%C2%AD365 > > > Regards, > Bhuvan Krishna > General Secretary > Swecha(FSMI) > > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > > > > -- > Regards, > T.Shrinivasan > > > My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com > Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com > > Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- Nothing is constant Regards A.K.Karthikeyan http://is.gd/kblogs _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
