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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:17:58 +0530 From: Atul Asthana @ Home atulasthana@gmx.net Subject: CBSE and AICTE promoting Micro$oft
A lesson in how to sell your product and make it the defacto standard.
When countries like Pakistan have officially decided to use Linux and open source softwares for all governmental organisations, we in India are officially promoting M$.
Take the case of basic education.
The CBSE syllabus officially wants the students to learn and use M$ products. for facts goto www.cbse.nic.in and check for syllabus of computer science, information practices.
Similar is the case with AICTE.
Hats off to our country, we really know how to splurge money for the wrong reason.
I am looking for people who will help in pressurising CBSE and AICTE to change the syllabus to generic applications viz Learn a spreadsheet NOT SPECIFICALLY M$ EXCEL and so on. Any volunteers may please contact me off the list at atul@cheerful.com
The open source tools are so similar, that a student (and at that age, the learning time is very short) will not feel any difficulty.
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