On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:06:49PM +0530, CK Raju wrote:
There are reports that Indiaoptions.com that has been quite regular in advertising on RHCE courses, are giving confusing remarks on GNU and other related technologies. The first case was reported from the presentation held by the Thrissur centre and now the Kozhikode centre also appears to have made similar remarks.
Could you point out a few of them. I know the guy who organized those programs. Of-course, Indiaoptions is a company intended to make money, and not for advocating Free Software philosophies. They are now partners for providing RHCE certification.
But if any one try to spread wrong information, that should be prevented, since it can create false ideas about this great movement.
In a fair game, as a defender of proprietary software, attacking the Free Software could be OK, but when it happens under the pretext of offering courses and conducting seminars on Free Software, perhaps the strategy should be aptly called unethical.
What I heard is that those seminars where conducted as a part of their advertising. There is nothing against Free Software. They want to make money, thats all.
What else we can expect from such institutes. IAC, most of the Indian computer institutes do more or less the same thing. It's because the faculty/management is less knowledgeable.
See this mail.
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kannan manoharan [10/6/2003 8:19 PM] :
Hi everyone i am kannan i am working in NIIT T.Nagar i want to install linux as server any one can help me by giving the steps steps wants to be in detail this is urgent so i can handle the class easily
One minute... you are going to TEACH a linux course at NIIT?
Well, why not? The last NIIT "linux faculty" guy that I saw posting on linux-india-help asked "how do I compile a C program on linux?"
Suresh Ramasubramanian linux@frodo.hserus.net
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Regards