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

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi Arjun,

Sorry for the top post , however it is a reposne to the issue and not
your mail per se.
Strategy :

First:
I think rather than individual emails we need a large collective
response , a single letter should be drafted and we should get this
signed - digital signs with names and / or physically signed and this
then should be posted to all the authorities. Thebiggest / seniromost
ones as well. Post it registered.

A copy of the letter should be posted to all / as many national and
international LUG / OPen Source user groups. We can decide who posts
to which list
i can post to India GII (am CC'ing Arun Mehta, Vickram Crishna)

A copy should be sent to IT / Software journalists to high light the
issue. Again we can decie who posts where (i can post - alreafdy have
cc'ed Fredrick Noromha. Send a copy of the mail to Linux for your.

Also consult  leading open source and Linux advocates (Raj Mathur,
Kishore Bhargava ) and linux friends (Vivek Iyyer)

Consult the FSF india people (any one on this list from there)

Second

and we have to argue / protest on the basis of some facts. Not on
emotion, argue the case - the economic, the proprietary nature is not
conducive to freee learning and experimentation.

Do some research on how and why other Univs adopted open source and
contact them for more details and experience and use their arguements
as well.

regards
ram

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Arjun Ghosh অর্জুন
<arjunghosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> 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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