"..Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with ACM providing all ACM Student Members with access, at no charge, to a variety (~ 100) of software packages through its Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance (MSDNAA). The goal of this program is to get these tools into the hands of current students. All active ACM Student Members are eligible to participate in the ACM/MSDNAA Program..." http://www.acm.org/membership/student/msdnaa-faq
CK Raju
Quoting CK Raju ck.thrissur@gmail.com:
"..Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with ACM providing all ACM Student Members with access, at no charge, to a variety (~ 100) of software packages through its Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance (MSDNAA). The goal of this program is to get these tools into the hands of current students. All active ACM Student Members are eligible to participate in the ACM/MSDNAA Program..." http://www.acm.org/membership/student/msdnaa-faq
Months before, They had signed the same with IEEE too.. http://swatantran.blogspot.com/2008/07/ieee-wants-its-students-to-be-slaves.... But IEEE already have an established track record of seeing the rest of the whole world as slaves. But I dont think Individuals inside ACM or IEEE are having such a view. These measures are to be resisted and voiced up inside the organisation itself. We should be having enough friends inside these organisations who know the value of Freedom and its their time to voice up. What about mailing the office bearers of these organisations at different places alerting of this chains their new generation is imposed to use?
Regards Shyam K
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Shyam K mail@swathanthran.in wrote:
What about mailing the office bearers of these organisations at different places alerting of this chains their new generation is imposed to use?
Great idea Shyam,
Petition all the regional office bearers, you can even alert them about starting a campaign in institutions to prevent innocent freshers from joining these organisations, if the freedom of future generations are getting compromised because of deliberate actions from ACM/IEEE.
Start a portal like www.nooxml.org and invite their attention to its contents.
Best wishes, [Let M$ lose its deposit this time too....]
CK Raju CK Raju
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Shyam K mail@swathanthran.in wrote:
What about mailing the office bearers of these organisations at different places alerting of this chains their new generation is imposed to use?
Great idea Shyam,
Petition all the regional office bearers, you can even alert them about starting a campaign in institutions to prevent innocent freshers from joining these organisations, if the freedom of future generations are getting compromised because of deliberate actions from ACM/IEEE.
Start a portal like www.noooxml.org and invite their attention to its contents.
Best wishes, [Let M$ lose its deposit this time too....]
CK Raju
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Shyam K mail@swathanthran.in wrote:
What about mailing the office bearers of these organisations at different places alerting of this chains their new generation is imposed to use?
"..The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009) will be held 17-19 April 2009 at Carnegie Mellon's state-of-the-art campus in Doha, Qatar. This conference will act as a focal point for new scholarship in the field of ICT and international development. Confirmed speakers include a Keynote by William H. Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
We invite submissions for ICTD2009, the third of an ongoing series of conferences, which follows successful events at Berkeley in May 2006 ( http://sims.berkeley.edu/ictd2006), and Bangalore in December 2007 ( http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ictd2007).."
Full story at http://ictd2009.org/cfp.html
That explains the *corporate diffusion* into academics through professional societies like IEEE and ACM - to control and have a larger say over what is *knowledge* and to dictate terms to all prestigious technological institutions across the world. Microsoft wins hands down, especially when scores of conferences hosted by Free Software communities refuse to think beyond, and concentrate only on celebrations over a few products/services.
And all this, just as we are still grappling on how to reduce their presence in standards bodies/organisations.
It should be a matter of great shame to all of us. CK Raju
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