The Dean of the School of Science and Engineering of Ateneo de Manila University, Dr. Toby Dayrit, is spear- heading the open source movement in the Ateneo. The movement is supported by the Department of Information Systems & Computer Science (DISCS), which aims to lead the School in the adaption of open source. For a start, all the teaching labs now dual boot to UbuntuLinux/WinXP, with Ubuntu as default. By the end of this week, even the open labs will dual boot also. The faculty are studying ways to teach the traditionally Windows-heavy courses like Multimedia (using Flash, Photoshop, etc.) with alternative open source tools.
The Ateneo has academic licensing agreements with Microsoft Philippines. The site-licensing terms are pretty good, but Ateneo still has to pay substantial licensing fees. Windows will continue to be used in many offices, and in the dual-booting labs. The use of Ubuntu is experimental, and if the DISCS open source initiative succeeds, a wider adaption of open source might be undertaken in the near future. Pablo Manalastas Linux User #5037 http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=5037 __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
