INDIA: Request to sign a petition favouring Free Software in the campus
Rakesh 'arky' Ambati
rakesh_ambati@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Tue Mar 15 09:12:35 IST 2005
Hoping for active your support.
--arky
FSUG-Bangalore
http://bangalore.gnu.org.in
--- "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred at bytesforall.org>
wrote:
> From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)"
> <fred at bytesforall.org>
> To: linux-india-general at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [LIG] INDIA: Request to sign a petition
> favouring Free Software in the campus
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 05:21:14 +0530 (IST)
>
> Please sign this petition if you agree with it...
> it's an attempt to convince a
> prominent technological university in Bangalore
> (VTU) to be opened to the use
> of Free Software too.
>
>
> http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?VTU-FLOSS_Campaign
>
> Krishna Pagadala, San Jose, USA. I have benefitted
> highly from the Free
> Software movement and the Freedoms it has provided.
> Specifically the Freedom to
> learn from the source code has helped me in getting
> a high-technology job in
> the US. I wish that all students enjoy the all the
> Software Freedoms.
>
> Pramode C.E, IC Software: I would like to add that
> there are efforts under way
> to develop innovative hardware experimentation
> platforms using GNU/Linux to
> improve the quality of Physics (as well as
> Engineering) education; and the best
> part is that it's being done in India. Please visit
> http://www.nsc.res.in/~elab/phoenix/ to know more
> about the `Phoenix Project'
> being developed by Ajith Kumar at the Nuclear
> Science Centre, India. The wealth
> of high quality tools and the open nature of the
> platform is of immense value
> to young engineers and scientists raring to unleash
> their creativity; the
> lessons in freedom and sharing that students learn
> by using GNU/Linux will also
> go a long way in shaping their character as caring
> and responsible human
> beings.
>
> ashidhar b desai ,6th sem E&C, B.V.Bhoomaraddi
> College of Engineering &
> Technology Hubli,Karnataka,India ,FLOSS is an
> excellent alternative for the
> existing commercial softwares..Academics(colleges
> and univ) is the best way to
> promote and support "Free Software".It will be a
> great initiative if the univ
> adopts it(it will become an example for other univ &
> institutes). News about
> open source and gnu/linux stuff---Indian Inside .
> Lets get Liberated.LONG LIVE
> OPEN SOURCE.
>
> Praveen Arimbrathodiyil (National Instititute of
> Technology, Calicut) Fri Mar
> 11 17:34:50 IST 2005 We use GNU/Linux in our main
> Computer center. It saves a
> lot of money of the college as there is no licence
> fee to be paid for each
> users. Since the source code of the softwares are
> available many computer
> science students do projects based on Linux kernel
> and other such projects. The
> possibility of use of thin-clients (which our
> computer center use) reduces the
> cost of hardware dramatically. It has proved to be
> beneficial to our college
> and I urge you to chose Free Software for giving a
> better alternative for
> students.
>
> Debapriyo Sarkar. Final year student of BCA, Goa. As
> a student, I plead to
> every university, to adopt, encourage and spread the
> use of Free/Libre Open
> Source Software (FLOSS). The benefits are clearly
> far-more significant than
> cost savings (which of course is a huge motivating
> factor). The quality of
> software reviewed and worked on by virtually the
> entire developer community of
> the world is definitely at least world-class if
> nothing else. It is possible to
> save on costs with $0 priced closed source software
> often termed as freeware,
> but the limited resources of the single developer or
> the couple of developers
> behind the software makes future of such software
> bleak. Compared to that,
> software released under an open source license,
> helps user as well as developer
> involvement to happen as deeply and transparent as
> no other licensing model can
> support. As the letter includes the following
> (stripped) statement "...Octave,
> which is simulation software written by University
> professors. This usually
> comes with the GNU/Linux Operating System." which
> clearly shows that professors
> of universities elsewhere have contributed to the
> solution of making quality
> software available to the students and colleges
> alike under a license that
> welcomes further contributions to improve the
> project virtually endlessly. As a
> personal experience, I often have used open source
> alternatives whenever
> acquiring the proprietary packages meant depending
> on the lab assistant to
> provide the CD for illegal copying or genuinely
> going out and shelling out all
> those huge wads of cash for functionality that was
> already at my disposal with
> added advantage of continuing development and a
> long-life (of the software). As
> universities use and recommend use of open source
> software,rate of development
> is bound to grow with more and more students using
> the same version of software
> both at college and home (no limited cheap "student"
> edition which are "cheap"
> imitations with myriad "limitations"). Also
> professors' contributions in the
> form of bug reports, bug fixes, new functionality
> patches and their work in
> increasing awareness about the benefits of using
> open source software would
> help improve quality of free software to an enormous
> extent.
>
> Vijay Kumar, Chennai, India.
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html
>
> .P.Sujeevan,Project leader, S2S2, Kerala .Here at
> kerala at school level more
> than 50 of schools are still using GNU/Linux.Also
> SSLC IT practical examination
> has successfully done under the linux operating
> system.Some schools are still
> using the Linux terminal server systems.Next year
> aggressive work is planning
> to implement complete linux environment in
> schools.http://s2s2net.netfirms.com
>
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