On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear FOSSouls, > > > 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' till now, but the evidences are the > experiences of may heads of institutions. > > 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. > yes they will ask, they have asked, some times they will some times they will not, esp in non-IT branches they will be more serious in checking the bills and softwares, some officials even run the programs.. in IT-related branches they are not so serious if the infrastructure is looking good above all these , there were many cases where they have never asked / checked for anything except they demanded to go for shopping, let me not forget to mention that not every one will ask to do that , given a chance atleast 60 - 7 percent want to go out for shopping there were many inspection where they have never > > This is not an intention to malign AICTE or any of its practice > anyway. If you are evidence savvy, kindly be present when an AICTE > appointed team visits an engineering college for inspection. They are > always interested in looking at 'LEGAL SOFTWARE' and their definition > of LEGAL is the binary only proprietary EULA given by 'The Redmond > Codelifter' and the like MOST RESPECTFULLY endorsed by NASSCOM and the > ministry of HRD, IT and others. > > -- > > Mohit Singh > > GNU/Linux User Group - Meerut > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in >
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