[Fsf-friends] So what is the problem?

[M Sasikumar]

I am amazed at this kind of mails. Is this the way to promote Open
source? Is CDAC Mumbai (ex-NCST) the only place with Windows machines?
How long has NCST been around? How long has it been since Linux machines
got to be comparable in user friendliness? How much of industry is using
Linux even today? Does the guy posting know why we use the particular
setup for work? It has nothing to do with his "smart" observation.

Bashing some institution is not the way to promote Open source.

- Sasi

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:07:13 +0530
From: Anurag <anurag@hbcse.tifr.res.in>
To: fsf-friends@gnu.org.in
Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] [Fwd: Proforma for membership records]

V. Sasi Kumar wrote:

>Indian Institute of Science asks alumni to fill up their details in
a>document in MS Word format. This is a mail I sent them more than two
>weeks back. No response as yet.

For that matter, I'd like to point out the infrastructure that is 
available at C-DAC Mumbai (formely NCST). 
They have something like 75 computers with Windows 2000 installed. 
Now the irony is that, for writing programs and compiling them, 
students are supposed to connect to a GNU/Linux server using a 
proprietary SSH client and write/compile programs there...  
This is called higher education!

-Anurag

-- 
M Sasikumar, KBCS/ETU Divisions, C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
sasi@ncst.ernet.in; the.little.sasi@gmail.com; staff.ncst.ernet.in/sasi