Re: [Fsf-friends] Microsoft to set up university in (Bangalore)city

On 7/17/07, Linux Lingam linuxlingam@gmail.com wrote:

have been reading with interest everyon'es response on the FSF mailing list on how to tackle the microsoft university challenge:

here's my take

a) welcome microsoft to education, and let them spend their resources and energies into building what could be a showcase of education worldwide.

You do not seem to understand the main intentions behind this 'privatization of education' and "FDI in Education". The Govt will mysteriously continue to reduce spending on higher education too and there will be nothing left for b). Research in the pure fields may never be funded. And the few parents who send their children to universities will send them to these shops.

Best

A. Mani