At 12:03 PM +0530 8/17/04, quasi wrote:
But -- all the new PC's they got of late come with Licenced Windows XP. These are purchased by the university directly. Not only that it seems that recently the Univ has acquired a *site* licence for MS Office 2000. :(
We must use this golden opportunity to publicise this retrograde step - Venky, do what you can and so will I. Quasi, please try and get names of people involved with the decision, so we can point some working journos at them to ask uncomfortable questions.
Vickram Crishna wrote:
At 12:03 PM +0530 8/17/04, quasi wrote:
But -- all the new PC's they got of late come with Licenced Windows XP. These are purchased by the university directly. Not only that it seems that recently the Univ has acquired a *site* licence for MS Office 2000. :(
We must use this golden opportunity to publicise this retrograde step - Venky, do what you can and so will I. Quasi, please try and get names of people involved with the decision, so we can point some working journos at them to ask uncomfortable questions.
I'll go across to Mumbai University and speak to them. I guess Nagarjuna's words will also carry a lot of weight due to his academic credentials.
Venky
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 04:38:39PM +0530, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Vickram Crishna wrote:
At 12:03 PM +0530 8/17/04, quasi wrote:
But -- all the new PC's they got of late come with Licenced Windows XP. These are purchased by the university directly. Not only that it seems that recently the Univ has acquired a *site* licence for MS Office 2000. :(
We must use this golden opportunity to publicise this retrograde step
- Venky, do what you can and so will I. Quasi, please try and get
names of people involved with the decision, so we can point some working journos at them to ask uncomfortable questions.
I'll go across to Mumbai University and speak to them. I guess Nagarjuna's words will also carry a lot of weight due to his academic credentials.
i lost the context, can someone post the original message, off list.
Nagarjuna
i am quite surprised that INDIA does not have its own operating system which they could call it their own.. sure you have linux(but it was not created by an indian). indians have so much of talent why not create an operating system which we proudly can call it our own.
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:12:25 +0530, Nagarjuna G. nagarjun@gnowledge.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 04:38:39PM +0530, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Vickram Crishna wrote:
At 12:03 PM +0530 8/17/04, quasi wrote:
But -- all the new PC's they got of late come with Licenced Windows XP. These are purchased by the university directly. Not only that it seems that recently the Univ has acquired a *site* licence for MS Office 2000. :(
We must use this golden opportunity to publicise this retrograde step
- Venky, do what you can and so will I. Quasi, please try and get
names of people involved with the decision, so we can point some working journos at them to ask uncomfortable questions.
I'll go across to Mumbai University and speak to them. I guess Nagarjuna's words will also carry a lot of weight due to his academic credentials.
i lost the context, can someone post the original message, off list.
Nagarjuna
Sometime Today, Vidyasagar Venkatesh assembled some asciibets to say:
i am quite surprised that INDIA does not have its own operating system
It is illogical to reinvent when one can reuse.
Posted by michael on Sunday August 15, @12:50PM @Slashdot.org
from the windows-with-training-wheels dept. de la mettrie writes "C-Net reports that analysts do not recommend using Microsoft's new 'Windows XP Starter Edition', a low-cost XP version aimed at the Asian market (and previously covered on Slashdot). The report notes that numerous networking features are removed, and the Starter Edition allows only three applications to be run concurrently. According to Microsoft, this limitation 'helps [users] stay organized and reduces confusion.'"
""The report notes that numerous networking features are removed, and the Starter Edition allows only three applications to be run concurrently. According to Microsoft, this limitation 'helps [users] stay organized and reduces confusion.'""
Do we really need this?
Email: aayush.iyer@ftgl.net ICQ: 298353370
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Venkatesh Hariharan spake thusly:
I'll go across to Mumbai University and speak to them. I guess Nagarjuna's words will also carry a lot of weight due to his academic credentials.
Hold on folks .. :(
The news that the Univ. of Mumbai had purchased a site licence for MS Office is erroneous. They were /considering/ to buy one. And people assume that they already have purchased and are are using pirated copies thinking they are legal. But many departments are not averse to purchase a departmental copy of software for which open alternatives exist.
But it is true that all the new centrally acquired machines (from HCL) I think are preloaded with XP. This I have seen personally.
Further, if you do make any enquiries, please dont make any references to my dad's as it would mean a difficult situation at home for me ;) But I am with you all the way.
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