Well, As I know this guy is opportunist, and he made a good fortune with it. Rather than highlighting these kind of guys who are of no use to us, as they do not support our cause, we very well focus on educating the masses/colleges, professors by seminars/workshops and make them realize that careers are made with GNU/Linux not on wind...once they are out of college, there's nothing other than GNU/Linux + foss which stand to welcome them...where I am seeing the trend setting up , people/students are already frustrated as university syllabus etc are not giving anything to cover these kind of technologies...no idea when they will think realistically...
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear FOSSouls, > > > We all know Mr. Yashwant Kanetkar, who has not invented 'C' but is > probably closer to Indian students than Dennis Ritchie through his > books like 'Let us C' and others. > > He started his book writing in DOS/Windows Era of PC when Turbo C++ > IDE of 1991 was ubiquitous. His books and their content have become > integral part of computing spaces in India. He has actually 'trained' > a complete generation of 'C' programmers. At the same time, it is very > unfortunate that he stills maintains his stand that 'Turbo C++' is the > 'simplest' thing to learn C/C++. the lastest version of his 'C' books > does have a chapter on Linux but that is a mere eyewash and 95% code > shown in the books is for Turbo C++. > > Unfortunately, most computer labs in colleges still use Turbo C++ IDE > of 1991!! The faculty fraternity looks at Turbo C++ as a de facto > standard in which they have been tranined and the legacy goes on and > on. > > Even AICTE and its NBA arm does not disapprove this culture and the > colleges get all right to run Turbo C++. There are a number of people > in FOSS space who will probably end up their lives fighting with the > blue screen of death 'Turbo C++' IDE. > > Can we do something for this? Mr. Kanetkar has been declared as 'best > .net technical contributor' by Microsoft. He probably has no respect > for FOSS and UNIX culture. In ancient times, he wrote a book on UNIX > shell programming and its second edition is due for long. > > Can we do something 'top to bottom' for this? > > -- > > Mohit Singh > > GNU/Linux User Group - Meerut > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > -- Cheers, Jagjit www.gnugroup.org Insight GNU/Linux Group 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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