- You mean there is no VB for Linux? How do people write software
then ??
Here's a similar one I was asked yesterday:
"I know a little what shell scripting is -- but what else can you do on Linux ? "
I should add that he was a MSc Computer Science student and had scored ~70% in his BSc Computer Science course.
this shows: #1 Apathy towards GNU/Linux in the education system #2 Complete ignorance of current state of affairs *in his own subject* by the student.
Dear Friends: This is the case with 99% of the technical student community in India. :-( . Well, this will be more clear if you count the number of GNU/Linux users in your class. I don't know what happens in Premier institutes; but u can see people (who are going to be the mighty engineers and scientists who's supposed to shape our nations future) using pirated software everywhere. The computer dealers who assemble PCs give pirated software. And most of our students BUY assembed PCs - instead of assembling one. When projects come, they take it from Open Source or BUY it from PROJECT GUIDANCE AGENCIES. If you ask our "TECHNICALLY POWERED GRADUATE" such questions, s/he'll say it's out of syllabus. Nobody is ready to take the pain. If technical Students ignore technology so much, what about others. (Anyway they live better lives.) So how long will we have to wait for the culture to evolve, where we use softwares giving the right RESPECT to its developers? where people put back something to the ocean of knowledge, from which they nourished ? where people share the knowledge with others who never got a chance to?
Binulal Narayanan