Hello,
On 17/07/07, shriramadhas shriramadhas@gmail.com wrote:
Instead of asking the government to stop Microsoft from setting up the University, ask the government to grant land, fund everything it might allocate to microsoft in setting up its university to free software university also..
The disadvantages of Foreign Direct Investment in education have been well
documented. I am doing a bit of reading on the issue and will post a separate mail on that. A "University of MIcrosoft" would qualify as FDI in education and hence is not desirable. Ok. We set up a "University of Free Software". Who is going to run it? We are unable to bring out good documentation as of now and still have a long way to go with other aspects... how do you suggest we go about this? We already find it tough to maintain a few full time employees for FSF(if I am not mistaken)... Let us work towards protecting and improving what we already have.