>
> 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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