This is awful, We need a revolution to get things in line. i.e More awareness campaigns in institutes.
Jagjit On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Vickram Crishna <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Amol Hatwar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Dec 14, 2009, at 1:50 AM, H.S.Rai wrote: >> >> > Student's competition of IIT Kharagpur want presentation only with >> > proprietary format. See rules under round 3 of >> > http://www.ktj.in/#eureka >> > >> > "For the final round the participants will have to give their >> > presentation in Macromedia flash 8.0/Microsoft PowerPoint." >> >> Yuck! >> >> Imagine the state of the country's IT sector, if college students at > India's top graduate engineering institutions are unaware of alternatives to > proprietary software and unconscious of the need to keep an open > environment, even at such innocuous events. > > In attempts to change this situation at other, less prestigious, colleges, > I have personally seen that the entire infrastructure is designed to > perpetuate 'conventional wisdom', 'currently accepted norms' and so on. This > lethargy presents the greatest challenge. It is at the core of a failure > within the Indian educational system, where we are 'training' millions of > young people to behave like sheep. Or, given the proportions in our own > animal husbandry scenario, like goats. > > -- > Vickram > http://communicall.wordpress.com > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > > -- Cheers, Jagjit Our actions are our master; actions are master of the world. Pleasure and pain are given by our actions -- who else is lord of the world?
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