Hi, It will take much time for NUS to realize, evaluate, develop & introduce new policies and put great effort & costs to change staff & students' attitude & behavior towards FOSS. NUS does not receive "free" M$ Windows Vista & Office, SDK, Visual Studio versions "for free" (check mysoc account for free download; Helpdesk is allowed to issue multiple licenses) . There must be certain restrictions on NUS side to "protect" M$ popularity. To be fair, FOSS yet to have sound replacement for M$ Exchange server & OpenOffice is not an adequate substitute to M$ Office.
Moreover, much time, effort & costs have been invested on the current infrastructure. Sudden switching is really a shock to both staff & students and is unjustifiable in term of planning. For the open courses & materials, there is much concern about the copyright & IP rights in the NUS policy. I regard the slides & syllabi are instances & representations of knowledge accumulated by human. Regardless of the form, shape & color they take, knowledge remains the same. Why should ppl restrict sharing just because they put pictures into the slides & redecorate knowledge they have obtained from others? Regards, Viet. On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Ruiwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/4/26, Chris Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<chrishenry.ni%40gmail.com> > >: > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Roy Ong <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]<lugs%40royong.com>> > wrote: > > > how i wish i could say the same about singapore :( > > Lol. We do have our MINDEF adopting open-source big time. James also > > hints to us that some secondary/high schools are adopting open source. > > We shouldn't be pessimistic. We are going there. (Not so sure about > > open content though; maybe NUS will adopt open-content soon with so > > many top US universities opening their courses for free in the web[1]) > > > > I agree.. 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