On Wednesday 28 July 2010 11:42 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
While everything that helps should be tried, the real ownership of the
apps is not with the software vendor but with their customer - Govt.
Besides PIL (which I agree is long drawn), don't know whether other means
such as RTI, media coverage, making such questions reach political parties
that can pursue it in the parliament (Sounds too much? But that's
officially supposed to be the way in democracy!) are feasible or not.
I think a thoughtful article in a reputed newspaper will really help
spread the word. If anyone here at plug has connections with Reporters
etc can take the initiative.
FOSS did make inroads in that syllabus. Sudhanwa was instrumental in
participating the efforts to replace software required in curriculum with FOSS
alternatives such as gcc, postgresql etc. Lots of curriculum(at least in pune
uni.) need foss alternative.
However that has not resulted in any net value to students and educators IMO.
Colleges have linux installations, many a times only one machine which
somebody has setup long time ago and teachers are afraid to touch(I have seen
redhat 6.2 running 3-4 years ago). Nobody knows how to install a linux distro.
and do not think thats a problem to start with.
In my engineering days, I had convinced teachers to build a FOSS LAB and
Installed a Fedora core on 20 Machines with NFS etc. It was really
learning experience for me but I failed to create a eco system by which
lab can be sustained. After completion of BE I got the call from teacher
asking how to remove the "stuff"!
In most of the colleges, Linux is Alien stuff!
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