[fsug-tvm] Re: Kerala syllabus includes Power Point
Hi, On Apr 5, 7:59 am, .Kenney Jacob kenney.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Are you trying to say that its ok to use AutoCad until a free alternative comes up ? Basically yes, sir! I am really surprised that this question came from you! Abandoning CAD tools until an FS alternative comes up- sets us back by 20 years in design methodology. Will anyone of us abandon meals when we can't have home made food? FOSS ideology is great- but can we forget pragmatism for it? On Apr 5, 10:36 am, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: A Free CAD that supports 3D also is being developed. I feel we should see if we can help it grow faster so that we can soon replace AutoCAD with it. I am all ears for it. That is the ideal solution. But I don't know which project you are talking about. I am keenly awaiting details. On Apr 5, 10:48 am, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: So let us write to them and see what happens. We know that the Education Minister is also a supporter of FS. Let us write to the Higher Education Board and see what heppens. If not we will meet the Minister too. Back to topic. May I suggest a wikia FCI campaign? Regards, Gokul Das --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 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 website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[fsug-tvm] Re: Kerala syllabus includes Power Point
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 05:55 -0700, Visakh wrote: On Apr 5, 10:36 am, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: A Free CAD that supports 3D also is being developed. I feel we should see if we can help it grow faster so that we can soon replace AutoCAD with it. I am all ears for it. That is the ideal solution. But I don't know which project you are talking about. I am keenly awaiting details. What I am talking about is the project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad which is currently at version 0.7. I have not looked deeply into the project, but it is active and growing. Maybe we can look into it and see how good it appears to be. There seems to be another project with the same name at http://www.ar-cad.com/index.html . This seems to be in version 8 or so. It is strange that no one seems to be familiar with this. There even seems to be an Indian (Rajeev Lochan from Bangalore) working with the AR-CAD team. Both projects claim that the software is under GPL/LGPL. It would be good if someone can look more carefully at these and see how good they are. It is possible that these do not really form substitutes for AutoCAD. But I think we should look at them and see how good they are. Best -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India Please visit 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 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 website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[fsug-tvm] Re: Kerala syllabus includes Power Point
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 08:29 +0530, .Kenney Jacob wrote: Are you trying to say that its ok to use AutoCad until a free alternative comes up ? We don't want anyone to use non-free software. But to get the education system to abandon something as important as a CAD tool would be virtually impossible. We can suggest the use of QCAD, but we really cannot expect them to abandon AutoCAD and move to QCAD. A Free CAD that supports 3D also is being developed. I feel we should see if we can help it grow faster so that we can soon replace AutoCAD with it. But Powerpoint is different because it is used by such a lot of people. If we can replace it with a Free tool, that will be so much more FS usage. It would be good if someone can draft a letter to the Higher Education Council and the Education Minister. Best -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India Please visit 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 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 website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[fsug-tvm] Re: Kerala syllabus includes Power Point
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 19:40 -0700, Visakh wrote: But, sorry to be pessimistic - going by the way government treats FOSS (eg: VAT e-filing), i wonder if they or their agencies have any genuine interests in FOSS other than immediate political ones. Suspecting the real intention of a political party is natural, because our experiences have not been good. But, in this case, we know that the Chief Minister is genuinely interested in FS (he had favoured FS right from the time he was Leader of the Opposition). Moreover, I am not sure that favouring FS would gain much political mileage for a party. So I think the support given by the present ministry and the CPI(M) is genuine. Implementers are different, and they need not always think of FS. They may not even be favourable. I think that is why we see non-free software making its appearance frequently. So we need to be on our guard and point out such policy violations. Still, I will support the idea and in petitioning them. So let us write to them and see what happens. We know that the Education Minister is also a supporter of FS. Let us write to the Higher Education Board and see what heppens. If not we will meet the Minister too. Best -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India Please visit 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 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 website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
