I remember myself asking in the ilug-cochin list about alternatives for our lab in engineering (computer science and engineering,under cusat) .and i got a very good response.I could also know that MEC,Kochi uses completely free software for all their lab work which is very appreciable
CS depts at Govt Engineering colleges Trichur and Sreekrishnapuram use completely Free Software --- and many other college CS depts are shifting over ...
One or two enlightened faculty members can make a *lot* of difference - take for example the case of GEC Sreekrishnapuram - the CS dept professors there will accept project reports only in LaTeX; simple things like this have a lot of impact.
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