2009/3/2 Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org>: > we are working on it, and will shortly be conducting a meeting with > responsible people in VTU and the Karnataka government. We have a mandate to > *promote* foss - we do not have a mandate to oppose universities signing MOU's > with vendors of proprietary software. Previously the powers that be in > Karnataka were very opposed to FOSS
Ok. > and the FOSS community in Karnataka was in > disarray. Now a strong FOSS community has emerged and I think that you should not come to these conclusions just from your interactions with a couple of people on online groups and/or by attending the recent meeting at Bangalore. The Free Software Movement or FOSS movement in Karnataka has been making a lot of progress and much before my tenure at NRCFOSS. > the government is also > more favourably inclined towards FOSS, so we have a good climate to work. This needs further assessment. -- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://swatantra.org/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
