This is really unfortunate. We must do something against this!. It is pure wastage of money..
On 3 July 2012 14:14, V. Sasi Kumar <sasi....@gmail.com> wrote: > Friends, > > Today's newspaper says that the state government is discussing with > Microsoft for collaborating in education, e-governance and what-not. > This is supposed to bring transparency into governance. But this > discussion itself appears very opaque. It is not at all clear what is > wrong with the present system that uses Free Software in education. And > it is strange that they think that Microsoft can bring transparency into > e-governance. The result will be that the government will pay tons of > money to the company as licence fees since all schools will have to > migrate back to Windoze et al. Moreover, all teachers will have to be > retrained, textbooks will have to be rewritten, and worst of all, it > would be virtually impossible to bring Free Software back not only into > schools but also into higher education. It is to be remembered that > many, if not most research labs in India use GNU/Linux for their > scientific computation and most advertisements for positions in these > labs ask for knowledge of GNU/Linux and some scripting languages. So, > will this mean that our students won't find it easy to apply for these > positions? Finally, the national education policy itself speaks about > encouraging Free Software and sharing. So where is the need to go to > Microsoft now? > > Friends, we need to do something about this. I know that with this > government, it won't be easy to push for Free Software, but we certainly > cannot remain silent spectators to this looting. > > It would be good if someone can start a representation to the government > and post it to the group or a wiki, so that others can work on it as we > used to do and send it to the Chief Minister, Education Minister and > others. And, perhaps, we can start a media campaign too. Ideas welcome. > > Best, > Sasi > -- > V. Sasi Kumar > Free Software Foundation of India > http://swatantryam.blogspot.com > > > -- > "Freedom is the only law". > "Freedom Unplugged" > http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > To control your subscription visit > http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe > To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > > For details visit the google group page: > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
