On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Gaurav Paliwal <[email protected] > wrote:
> 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. > But if that's the case, the question arises why does the administration fail to ensure that uploaded documents are in .odt format? Though most of the uploaded documents are in pdf format, but a few are with .doc extension as well. And also, it is clearly interpretable for the PDFs that they were created using M$ Office seeing the .doc extension in the title of the file. This clearly means that they haven't adopted OpenOffice in their offices. > 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 :-( ) . >> > > Then why isn't syllabus updated so that options are shown for each technology? And nowhere will you see recommendation for reading any book for open source software in the syllabus. Keywords Microsoft, Oracle, Matlab, Dreamweaver can be spotted at more than one place. Even worse, we see questions related to closed source softwares only, discouraging most of the students from experimenting with other software. > 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 ). > If they update the syllabus, then even fresh graduates will be knowing about FOSS. So right away, they can help in increasing the penetration of such software among would be graduates. 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. But I haven't ever seen the use of Times new roman font for source code. Monospace font family is used.
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