[ubuntu-in] Ms-Office mandatory for Engineering colleges ?

[Anupam Jain]

Really hurts to read that such a mandate can be proposed without taking any
public opinion. Question really is about imposition of a mandate rather
than who the mandate is in favor of.

AICTE would've better utilized their resources had they concentrated more
on developing the research and entrepreneurial environment for the
engineering colleges.


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Sreekandh B <gnuyoga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ram,
> What they are looking is Office 365 which is a collaboration suit
> available on cloud and not Microsoft office locally installed. The mandate
> is wrong, you can't install office 365, you can just sign up and start
> using it in cloud. AICTE can't even write grammar free mandate forget about
> they suggesting alternate tools.
>
> From the clipping
>
> A recent notification by the AICTE states that all institutes must
> compulsorily install and use Microsoft Office 365, a productivity suite,
> which has little to do with the functioning of the cloud-storage service.
>
> There is no free, open-source cloud-based offering, and Microsoft’s
> product, priced at zero initial cost, fulfills that need. Dr. S.S. Mantha,
> Chairman, AICTE, announced, “Office 365 will enhance our day to day
> communication, collaboration, and monitoring of the colleges we oversee...
> This will help us promote and propagate innovation across all 11,500
> institutions."
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
>
>>
>> Did not know ms office was a cloud solution. So its strange that you
>> query is posited as such.
>>
>> Aicte's move reeks of the tacit industry wide support for profiteering as
>> the first line of enterprise .
>>
>> ram
>> ***
>> Sent from an android device
>> On Apr 22, 2013 10:18 PM, "Sreekandh B" <gnuyoga at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, April 22, 2013, James Sebastian wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> How a government body can mandate a commercial application when open
>>>> source alteratives like Libre Office or other on the cloud competing
>>>> solutions are there ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Like what other cloud solutions are available for colleges ? Which is
>>> free ? Which colleges can start using it ?
>>>
>>> Am not a m$ supporter either, but curious to know options.
>>>
>>>
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