On Monday 09 March 2009 21:26, Rony wrote: > jtd wrote: > > On Monday 09 March 2009 15:53, Rony wrote: > >> yogesh kunjir wrote: > >>> so it not much trouble to do that > >>> the bottom line is you should not force user to bye a paid > >>> software > >> > >> The matter should cover all > >> aspects of education, not just websites. Education from school > >> level itself begins with learning the use of branded software. > >> Later on even in engineering courses students are made to use > >> proprietary software that is expensive to purchase. > > > > In a batch of 120 BMS students 119 had pirated doze + Adobe + > > Corel + video tools + rippers. All are of course cluless about > > the politics of computing technology. But clued in about IPR, > > copyrights and patents. They have these three as part of the > > syllabus. They wont bat an eyelid while pirating and give a sh** > > about it when pointed out that they are die hard M$ fans and > > should be paying their hero. The whole college merrily uses all > > pirated stuff. The Computer dept head is a M$ zombie, does not > > care either. > > > > Really nice. > > Not only the multimedia part but even engineering students are made > to learn some heavy tech software for manufacturing, design (Can't > recollect the exact thing) that costs above 1 lakh to purchase. An > electronics engg student once asked me for some PCB designing > software that was proprietary. I recollected you mentioning a foss > alternative and found 'pcb' on the net and installed it in the > system. However the class did not want it. Unless quality begins at > the top, things won't improve so easily.
without doubt. When the teachers have no morals what do you expect from students. And it's not some struggling government college but a very well funded, fat fee charging institution. For the record PCB and GEDA works very well, even for high density SMT boards. We have switched completely. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
