2009/11/1 Guru गुरु <[email protected]>: > Friends > > Recently the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, which is a deemed > university and well known for its academic prowess in the social sciences > arena, decided to adopt FOSS. > > Nagarjuna and I recently met with the Director and TISS is planning to > migrate to Ubuntu GNU/Linux, Open Office, Thunderbird and Firefox for its > desktops in a phased manner with support from HBSC and FSF (both of which > Nagarjuna is associated with) > > I am attaching a letter I wrote to the Director, which resulted in this > meeting with him, this could be used as a 'template' for writing to all > public education institutions, suggesting that they have special reasons to > adopt FOSS and avoid proprietary software. While we may not have the same > success in other cases, it would certainly increase awareness in mainstream > public education institutions that 'FOSS is the right way to go'. We have > also requested that TISS should also write out its migration as a 'case > study' that could be shared with other public institutions as well. > > regards, > Guru > > -- > Gurumurthy Kasinathan
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