On 22/04/2008, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
for the other side, it is not our responsibility to "provide " infrastructure persay.
It is not Microsoft's either.
Dear rony, did you intend to suggest that microsoft is doing a huge *obligation * on our children? I agree it is not microsoft's responsibility to give infrastructure, but I go a step ahead and say that this responsibility should not be even given to such dirty drug traffic agents who are spoiling the generation. think practically, it is like surrendering all your knowledge, and private information to some person whom you don't even know and nither you know their intentions (actually we all do know their intentions don't we?). as I said we can't teach immoral things to kids and microsoft products or any such proprietory brand persay is nothing but a pathway to knowledge prison.
what we give is much more valuable and that is the freedom and the way to it.
We are not giving freedom. We can only make people aware of it.
we surely are showing the way.
the problem is that is the government's educational system ready to take our knowledge and provide the proper infrastructure?
Government does not have funds even for regular schools.
Department of Science and technology provides huge funds to many organisations for creating educational projects and now a days every village gets computers in their schools which are *incapable* of running the big rubbish windows shit (in marathi vista means shit ). *smile*. or even xp for that matter. and we all know how unuserfriendly and unscientific the graphical users interfaces are. so that is a proper groundwork infact to have free software in education. secondly there are so many commertial companies who take up corporate social responsibilities and under that typical thing they do is to provide computers to schools which they adopt. I will give one example. mahendra and mahendra has adopted 25 schools for handicap and 40 usual schools in small towns. and I am very happy to inform the list that I being their adviser have got them convinced to *only * use free software and they have already started to implement it for the handicap schools in nagpur and mumbai and rurki. and they have already found it satisfactory. such things can be made to happen. the moral of the story is that it is not our responsibility to provide infrastructure, it is our responsibility to show the way to freedom and make people understand the truth. happy hacking. Krishnakant.
GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.