On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Raj Mathurraju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
taught the insides-out of OOo and still not being able to make a decent
"..Though Stallman didn't give a traditional reason for this, didn't ground his position in any particular philosophical or ethical theory, he was in fact a Dewey-ite. He was in fact saying what John Dewey had said at the beginning of the 20th Century, that the education and expansion of the human mind depends upon the opportunity to experiment with the world. That it is the ability to join forces with the material and immaterial knowledge surrounding us in the planet which makes our minds grow and develop..." http://ia331420.us.archive.org/1/items/EbenMoglenLectureEdinburghJune2007tex...
The opportunity to *experiment* with Free Software necessarily means using all its freedoms - to escape from accusation of merely "using" it. There may be plenty of areas like soliciting students to contribute to the graphics contents or to the localisation efforts, in the beginning and substantial hacks towards the end - most of which cannot be undertaken with non-free software and finally distributing or publishing them under GPL. Once teachers are exposed to these possibilities, they may be able to solicit opinions from their own student communities and come out with better findings.
[Neither Bengal's cops nor Chidambaram's cops are around to shoot you... breathe easy.. you don't look like a Chinese - ..aoist] CK Raju