[Fsf-friends] Urge Visveswaraiah Technologies University to go Open Source.

[Thejesh GN]

Thanks for your input......you can put your comments in the commenst
field...I will happily take the print out of whole before
sending......

I agree its free software than opensource...but I cant change at
petitiononline it doesnt allow.....so put your points in comments
field....
Thanks for your inputs,
Thejesh

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:05:05 +0530, V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.cess@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 18:18 -0600, Thejesh GN wrote:
> 
> > You know how much important for an university to go open source. To
> > force VTU to go open I am collecting the support online. Please sign
> > the petition at
> >
> > http://www.techmag.biz/?q=node/66
> 
> Yours is a very noble effort. But I wish you had said free software
> instead of open source. You have also forgotten to say that using free
> software gives the University the freedom to give copies of the software
> to its students so that they can run them on their own computers too.
> Moreover, free software also gives the students the opportunity to study
> the source code, written by some of the top programmers in the world,
> and thus enhance their own capability. I wish you would make these
> changes so that thousands of free software enthusiasts in this country
> and abroad would gladly sign the petition.
> 
> Best
> --
> V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.cess@gmail.com>
> Centre for Earth Science Studies
> 
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