Well I know of a college in goa where the princi goes a step ahead and
infact consciously discourages free software or open standards.
I had even twitted about this a few months ago.
he says that these free software are highly unorganised, unprofessional
and are just a hobby driven "time pass".
They don't have respect in industry and IT means commertially sound
companies like microsoft who know what they are doing and hense have the
world stand by them.
The HOD Mr. Parera and a few other faculties had tryed to bring foss and
open standards.
Let alone GNU/Linux, the principle Mr. L. Maskita does not even allow
students to try LaTeX.
docx is a compulsion and students are in the impression that microsoft
is the only OS making company and they are the ones directly or
indirectly responsible for getting the students jobs.
So what do you think?
I guess this is a story of not one college which I have seen personally,
but many others.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Saturday 31 July 2010 05:38 PM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Apinder Singh <apinder.in
<http://apinder.in>@gmail.com <http://gmail.com>> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Narendra Sisodiya
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I request all IP university-Delhi students to
boycott their circular which FORCE you to use
Microsoft Word and slap on your freedom.
Demand for ODT/HTML format.
http://ipu.ac.in/ucitim/ucitimcir200509.pdf
<http://ipu.ac.in/ucitim/ucitimcir200509.pdf>
You can find email id - [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Please Write mail that you are not happy with decision like
this. OpenOffice is available for all platforms.
Use Open Standards !
This circular was just for files sent by different departments of
the university. They don't entertain any electronic communication
from students.
But you have just noticed the tip of the iceberg. The concept of
open standards is alien to the university think-tank(which doesn't
seem to exist) .The syllabus for all the courses explicitly
mention that students should learn use of (pirated) proprietary
softwares(MS Office, Autocad, Matlab, Dreamweaver, Flash, Oracle
DB, Rational Rose etc). Neither any college is willing to adopt
any open standard(because the highly qualified faculty of all the
colleges is unaware of the wonderful world of free software.
Infact they aren't aware of the basic features of proprietary
software packages either :-( ) .
Yes, you are telling the problem.
Do you have any plan/idea to teach them ?
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