I do agree with Satyaakam that we need to match actions on the ground. But I think we need to let the ILLL guys know that their actions have been noticed by the FOSS community. Let me also put on record the fact that a lot of people have quit the ILLL because of an authoritatiran work environment. Their is a large degree of disquiet among the teachers of DU who have worked with the ILLL. so we need to bring this matter to the larger public domain. I shall try to raise this issue through general DU mailing lists.
For now I think we should send the following to ILLL at the following address: http://www.illl.ac.in/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=1&Itemid=105 The email could also be sent to: Dr. Vimal Rarh<http://index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=198&Itemid=139> Academic Secretary, ILLL-ICT [email protected] "*We who are members of the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community wish to register our extreme anguish about the ongoing partnership of the ILLL-ICT with Microsoft Corporation.* * * *Ostensibly, designed to promote computer awareness among the Delhi University faculty, this course promotes Microsoft and proprietorial options as the only computing options available. Though on paper the course content does include some Open Source tools, it has been reported that in practice attention is focused only on proprietorial software particularly those designed by Microsoft.* * * *Delhi University being a publicly funded, publicly owned institution, this initiative of ILLL to promote Microsoft can be termed 'unethical' in the least. The ILLL-ICT-Microsoft initiative is also subvertive of earlier attempts of the Delhi University Computer Centre which had taken significant measures to promote the use of Free and Open Source Software in the university.* * * *We call upon the ILLL to shun such blatant Microsoft-propaganda in the future and would be only too willing to help the ILLL meet its commitment to spreading computer awareness through FOSS alternatives.*" PLease feel free to reword the mail.
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