[ubuntu-in] Delhi University sells out to M$

[Arjun Ghosh অর্জুন]

We should do what we can.

For now I think we should send the following to ILLL at the following
address to let the people at ILLL know that their actions have been noticed
by the FOSS community.

http://www.illl.ac.in/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=1&Itemid=105

The email could also be sent to:

Dr. Vimal Rarh<http://index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=198&Itemid=139>
Academic Secretary, ILLL-ICT
vimalrarh at yahoo.com

"*We who are members of the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community
wish to register our extreme anguish about the ongoing partnership of the
ILLL-ICT with Microsoft Corporation.*
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*Ostensibly, designed to promote computer awareness among the Delhi
University faculty, this course promotes Microsoft and proprietorial options
as the only computing options available. Though on paper the course content
does include some Open Source tools, it has been reported that in practice
attention is focused only on proprietorial software particularly those
designed by Microsoft.*
*
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*Delhi University being a publicly funded, publicly owned institution, this
initiative of ILLL to promote Microsoft can be termed 'unethical' in the
least. The ILLL-ICT-Microsoft initiative is also subvertive of earlier
attempts of the Delhi University Computer Centre which had taken significant
measures to promote the use of Free and Open Source Software in the
university.*
*
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*We call upon the ILLL to shun such blatant Microsoft-propaganda in the
future and would be only too willing to help the ILLL meet its commitment to
spreading computer awareness through FOSS alternatives.*"

PLease feel free to reword the mail.
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