On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> It is time for us to work on improving awareness about FOSS in >> Universities and educational institutions. Definitely, a lot of work >> has happened in this area, but a lot more needs to be done as >> proprietary software firms try to rope in more institutions with the >> "free" bait. > > We dont have much formal FOSS business organizations at least in North > India. Once a FOSS business ecosystem comes in being, it can nurture > education sector equally well. >
There is a big private sector in Education and given the nexus with industry and anti FOSS companies, nothing much should be expected... at least from business organizations. The smaller companies uniformly buckle under pressure or greed. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
