For years, Microsoft has insisted that open-source vendors acknowledge
that its patent portfolio is a precursor to interoperability
discussions. On Monday, Microsoft shed that charade and announced an
interoperability alliance with Red Hat for virtualization.
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regards
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Manilal K M : മണിലാല് കെ എം.
http://libregeek.blogspot.com
>
> I remember myself asking in the ilug-cochin list about
> alternatives for our
> lab in engineering (computer science and engineering,under
> cusat) .and i got
> a very good response.I could also know that MEC,Kochi uses
> completely free
> software for all their lab work which is very appreciable
>
CS depts at Govt Engineering colleges Trichur and Sreekrishnapuram use completely Free Software --- and many other college CS depts are shifting over ...
One or two enlightened faculty members can make a *lot* of difference - take for example the case of GEC Sreekrishnapuram - the CS dept professors
there will accept project reports only in LaTeX; simple things like this have a lot of impact.
Regards,
Pramode
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Hi,
Have you come across this tender floated by Central Silk Board - A
government organisation?
Tender Document for Enterprise Network Services Deployment and
development of Centralised MIS Software for Central Silk Board
http://indiansilk.kar.nic.in/tender/Tender.htm
Surprisingly, they have mandated the use of Free Software only. And
the tender document too looks very coherent and they knew what they
want.
Anybody on the list involved in preparing the tender? or atleast know
who's behind the same?
I surely hope this will receive the attention it deserves and
qualified people participate.
gnuingly yours,
- asok
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 11:58 +0700, Anoop Alias wrote:
> maybe with the Pre-college school syllabus ; we must do something with
> the the college sysllabus also ..
Yes, we certainly need to. We have been able to get the High Schools to
migrate. Now let us try to do that in the Higher Secondary schools. And
then take on higher education. In a few years, everyone coming out of
any institution should be familiar with Free Software tools.
Best
--
V. Sasi Kumar
Free Software Foundation of India
http://swatantryam.blogspot.com
I will be away from the Net for a couple of days. Meanwhile, it would be
good if someone can draft a letter to the Education Minister asking for
removal of specific references to proprietary software in the Higher
Secondary syllabus. I think we can first try to get that done and then
try for introducing applications that will be of help in higher
education (such as Octave, GNU R, xmaxima, gnuplot, etc. for the science
stream) or later in life (like software for the audio visual media,
image editing, etc.). It looks like we will have to do some amount of
thorough planning for this. We will not only have to identify what
software would be good and also people to train teachers in them.
Best
--
V. Sasi Kumar
Free Software Foundation of India
http://swatantryam.blogspot.com
I think this is an important thing that we have to take up. Can we
send letters from FSUGs? I will also arrange to send a letter from FSF
India. Let us take this up seriously. We need to suggest alternatives
too. I understand that they teach Tally for Commerce students. We may
not have a Free substitute for it. So, perhaps, we can suggest
alternatives. Maybe we can suggest that things like video and sound
editing be taught to students of humanities. Please come up with
suggestions.
Best
Sasi
2009/2/10 Renni P Mathunny <rennipm(a)gmail.com>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I hope most of you are aware about the use of proprietary software in higher
> secondary classes following Kerala Government syllabus. (CBSE is no
> exception, they also suggest using proprietary software.)
>
> It is very sad that the students, who have learned free software in high
> school classes are forced to learn/use proprietary software in higher
> secondary.
>
> Can we begin a campaign for revising the Computer Science and Computer
> Application Syllabus of Higher Secondary classes – atleast to replace the
> proprietary softwares with equivalent Free Software tools? There is no doubt
> that the whole syllabus is to be revised. Outdated/obsolete tools/languages
> like Visual Basic 6.0 and ASP are still taught in Higher Secondary.
>
> The software/tools to be learned by students in higher secondary courses,
> are listed below. There are three different streams in Computer/IT --
> Computer Science for Science stream, Computer Applications for Commerce
> stream and Computer Application for Humanities stream. All of them are
> included in the following list.
>
> 1. C++ (Turbo C++ is usually used as the IDE)
> 2. SQL (MS-Access / Oracle / MS-SQL Server)
> 3. Visual Basic (Visual Basic 6.0)
> 4. HTML / DHTML / Scripting Languages (VBScript / JavaScript / Perl / CGI /
> ASP / JSP)
> 5. MS-Office
> 6. DTP (Adobe Page Maker)
> 7. Text Editors
>
> The syllabus did not mention anything about using Free software. But it
> suggests the different proprietary softwares that can be used.
>
> Regards,
> Renni
>
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>
>
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V. Sasi Kumar
Free Software Foundation of India
Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/
2009/2/10 Renni P Mathunny <rennipm(a)gmail.com>:
> See the attached file -- list of alternatives.
>
> But I am not aware about an alternative to Tally for Commerce students.
> Creating an alternative for Tally is also a very improtant task, becuase now
> a days auditors (FCA/ACA) are forcing even government firms to buy/install
> Tally, becuase they are familiar with it. GNU Cash may evolve as an
> alternative.
Thank you, Renni for the document. I would also suggest that, when we
write, we can also suggest changes in the syllabus that would
introduce sensible alternative applications/software. For instance, I
thought it would be interesting and useful to teach some tools like
audacity, cinelerra and advanced image editing to, say, students of
Humanities, Octave, gnuplot and xmaxima (and maybe Python) to students
of Physics and Maths, and so on. Please give your suggestions.
Best
--
V. Sasi Kumar
Free Software Foundation of India
Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/
There is a nice discussion on Phantom OS (similar in principle to S/38 ) at /.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/06/1917233
You will find this more interesting:
______________
How is it licenced?
It's not called a license anymore. Licenses are a thing of the past!
It's called a "contractual object". And they're not written by
lawyers, but "documentary artisans".
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Best
A. Mani
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A. Mani
Member, Cal. Math. Soc