Original Message ----- From: "IT@School" itschool@asianetindia.com To: manjushmenon@hotmail.com Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: Reply

Mr.Manjush G. Menon We are not giving to depend totally on Ms. Products. Rather MS Office is taught along with open office and Windows along with Linux from this year. Arranging the resource persons for training an open software, making available the software, the maintenance of a help desk etc. are logistical issues which could not be immediately undertaken. We plan switch out to open software within three years. Executive Director

---- Original Message ----- From: Manjush G. Menon To: itschool@asianetindia.com Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:46 PM Subject: Respected sir, From Manjush G. Menon, Sr.Programmer, Sofker Solutions Pvt Ltd, Kochi-18.

To The Executive Director, 'IT @ SCHOOL' Project, SCERT Buildings, Poojapura, Thiruvananthapuram-12.

Respected sir, SUB: In protest against the inclusion of products from multinational companies in the syllabus of 'IT @ SCHOOL'

It's a very dissappointing fact that when the whole world is moving towards Free software, we at kerala are going behind a major MNC - Microsoft. I hereby register my protest in such an act from 'IT @ SCHOOL' Project team.

Breaking of prototypes will definetly help us in finding economical and high quality products for our future generation.

For students and programmers, the GNU Linux contains 'GNU Compiler Collections' which includes C, C++, FORTRAN, PERL, TCL etc. Also, for DTP and other publishing purposes, it includes GNU Office utilities like Abi-Word, gedit, and other worksheet utilities, all these with a nominal cost of Rs 700-800/-. The software as it is, is free and the cost is accounted towards the media (CD + Documentation) included.

By this letter, I urge you to take this matter seriously and suggest necessary modifications in the action plan of 'IT @ SCHOOL' project.

Wishing you all the best and wishing all 'Students @ SCHOOL' a bright future,

Thanking you, Yours faithfully

Manjush G. Menon. ______________________________________________________ Check out all the latest outrageous email attachments on the Outrageous Email Chart! - http://viral.lycos.co.uk