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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)
>
>
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