> > 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) > . >
No its not. not to forget faulty of university a played a key role in migrating infrastructure of Delhi Police to open source, its because of them that /*each and every police station in Delhi has either ubuntu/edububtu/kubuntu installed and more important working properly */ that is used to register NCR. > 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 :-( ) . > The problem is not think tanks but the private colleges who bring cheap b.tech pass-outs as faculty (against AICTE norms and AICTE don't do anything).As far as government college is concerned faulty / think tanks are good , and know FOSS (IAS are exception ). > For example, consider the case of GTBIT. The directions that students get > for creating project reports include the following lines: > ______________________ > Normal Body Text: > Font Size : 12 , *Times New Roman*, 1.5 Line spacing , single side writing > Paragraph Heading Font Size : 14, *Times New Roman*, Bold > The font size of source code should be 10, Times New Roman. > ______________________ > > Point to be noted is that Times New Roman is M$'s proprietary font. > This is widely/commonly available thats why it is used. -- With Regards, Gaurav Paliwal http://gauravpaliwal.com
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