Re: [ubuntu-in] Ms-Office mandatory for Engineering colleges ?
My apoligies And thanks for the explanations . *** The only way to counter this is a well thought out public information campaign. ram *** Sent from an android device On Apr 23, 2013 9:59 AM, Sreekandh B gnuy...@gmail.com wrote: -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
[ubuntu-in] Ms-Office mandatory for Engineering colleges ?
Dear all, Today's Hindu reports this. http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/issues/engineering-students-locked-into-microsoft-office/article4640546.ece and I could see this from a link in AICTE website. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Office-365/All-India-Council-for-Technical-Education/India-Institute-Deploys-7.5-Million-Office-365-Seats-to-Improve-Governance-Learning/71002268 How a government body can mandate a commercial application when open source alteratives like Libre Office or other on the cloud competing solutions are there ? And what is the way to protest this and make this to notice of decision makers ? I could not find an email id in AICTE website. Regards, James Sebastian Ubuntu and Open Source enthusiast. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Ms-Office mandatory for Engineering colleges ?
On Monday, April 22, 2013, James Sebastian wrote: How a government body can mandate a commercial application when open source alteratives like Libre Office or other on the cloud competing solutions are there ? Like what other cloud solutions are available for colleges ? Which is free ? Which colleges can start using it ? Am not a m$ supporter either, but curious to know options. -- gnuyoga.in -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Ms-Office mandatory for Engineering colleges ?
Ram,
What they are looking is Office 365 which is a collaboration suit available
on cloud and not Microsoft office locally installed. The mandate is wrong,
you can't install office 365, you can just sign up and start using it in
cloud. AICTE can't even write grammar free mandate forget about they
suggesting alternate tools.
From the clipping
A recent notification by the AICTE states that all institutes must
compulsorily install and use Microsoft Office 365, a productivity suite,
which has little to do with the functioning of the cloud-storage service.
There is no free, open-source cloud-based offering, and Microsoft’s
product, priced at zero initial cost, fulfills that need. Dr. S.S. Mantha,
Chairman, AICTE, announced, “Office 365 will enhance our day to day
communication, collaboration, and monitoring of the colleges we oversee...
This will help us promote and propagate innovation across all 11,500
institutions.
On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
Did not know ms office was a cloud solution. So its strange that you query
is posited as such.
Aicte's move reeks of the tacit industry wide support for profiteering as
the first line of enterprise .
ram
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On Monday, April 22, 2013, James Sebastian wrote:
How a government body can mandate a commercial application when open
source alteratives like Libre Office or other on the cloud competing
solutions are there ?
Like what other cloud solutions are available for colleges ? Which is
free ? Which colleges can start using it ?
Am not a m$ supporter either, but curious to know options.
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Re: [ubuntu-in] Ms-Office mandatory for Engineering colleges ?
Really hurts to read that such a mandate can be proposed without taking any public opinion. Question really is about imposition of a mandate rather than who the mandate is in favor of. AICTE would've better utilized their resources had they concentrated more on developing the research and entrepreneurial environment for the engineering colleges. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Sreekandh B gnuy...@gmail.com wrote: Ram, What they are looking is Office 365 which is a collaboration suit available on cloud and not Microsoft office locally installed. The mandate is wrong, you can't install office 365, you can just sign up and start using it in cloud. AICTE can't even write grammar free mandate forget about they suggesting alternate tools. From the clipping A recent notification by the AICTE states that all institutes must compulsorily install and use Microsoft Office 365, a productivity suite, which has little to do with the functioning of the cloud-storage service. There is no free, open-source cloud-based offering, and Microsoft’s product, priced at zero initial cost, fulfills that need. Dr. S.S. Mantha, Chairman, AICTE, announced, “Office 365 will enhance our day to day communication, collaboration, and monitoring of the colleges we oversee... This will help us promote and propagate innovation across all 11,500 institutions. On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, Ramnarayan.K wrote: Did not know ms office was a cloud solution. So its strange that you query is posited as such. Aicte's move reeks of the tacit industry wide support for profiteering as the first line of enterprise . ram *** Sent from an android device On Apr 22, 2013 10:18 PM, Sreekandh B gnuy...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, April 22, 2013, James Sebastian wrote: How a government body can mandate a commercial application when open source alteratives like Libre Office or other on the cloud competing solutions are there ? Like what other cloud solutions are available for colleges ? Which is free ? Which colleges can start using it ? Am not a m$ supporter either, but curious to know options. -- gnuyoga.in -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in -- gnuyoga.in -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in -- Regards Anupam Jain +91-9990929537 (Delhi) -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
