On Monday 05 April 2010 10:22 PM, jitendra wrote:
There is nothing surprising about it.
jitendra
I had a similar problem in RUIA.
Although it was not the same authority, but the management was unwilling
to migrate the Self Vision Center for blind to GNU/Linux because they
don't have to buy the Orca screen reader. Upon probing of some known
people in the Management, I came to know that they have got grant from
the Univercity under strict order that the money be used on *purchasing*
licensed copy of Jaws for Blind.
However most of the management is well convinced about free software and
I have been educating them for last 6 months to get this working.
The work-arround they found out is a really good hack.
They are going to purchase Orca (gpl never disallows selling of
software). And will be including in the quotation that services have
been provided along with setup of the machines.
Further more they will also take up maintainance contracts for their
machines.
So this is how it got managed in Ruia, where I am just starting to train
faculties who will teach blind students.
They are indeed going to buy software, but along with service. And as
far as the license issue goes, they claim to have resolved it by Proving
to the univercity that The General Public License is indeed a "leagul "
document and that it allows selling (and consiquently buying ) free
software.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Sudev Barar <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 5 April 2010 18:17, Mohit Singh <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> It is a matter of great concern for all of us that proliferation of
> FOSS is being severely countered by 'AICTE Inspector Raj' in
> engineering institutions. We have no evidences as of now -
because we
> have not involved 'TEHELKA.COM <http://TEHELKA.COM>' till now,
but the evidences are the
> experiences of may heads of institutions.
No evidence as of now? Is this mere speculation or heresy?
> The AICTE inspectors insist on showing the bills of softwares
> licensed/purchased and they reject FOSS as 'Free Ka hai ji -
hence you
> use'. It is a challenge for all of us to 'educate/inspire/compel'
> AICTE and its NBA arm to respect FOSS.
Serious. Any one else who can confirm / supplement this?
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Sudev Barar
Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there.
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