On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > Many schools and institutes do not even know how much they stand to save > by adopting FOSS. With fee hikes becoming a regular issue, an eye opener > is needed for school runners.
When it comes to institutions I'd hesitate to put forth 'cost savings' as the only value derived by moving to a FOSS stack. In real life, it is somewhat easy for any vendor to juggle around prices via discounts and render 'free' quite irrelevant as a value. Institutes and more importantly, the faculty and the folks within the institutes adopting FOSS should make it a point to discuss the culture of collaboration and learning via looking that is enabled by a FOSS stack. And, that the culture of collaboration is not limited to software but should be visible across other parts and activities of the institute - magazines, coding and similar contests, technical workshops and so forth. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
