On Monday 09 March 2009 21:26, Rony wrote:
jtd wrote:
On Monday 09 March 2009 15:53, Rony wrote:
yogesh kunjir wrote:
so it not much trouble to do that the bottom line is you should not force user to bye a paid software
The matter should cover all aspects of education, not just websites. Education from school level itself begins with learning the use of branded software. Later on even in engineering courses students are made to use proprietary software that is expensive to purchase.
In a batch of 120 BMS students 119 had pirated doze + Adobe + Corel + video tools + rippers. All are of course cluless about the politics of computing technology. But clued in about IPR, copyrights and patents. They have these three as part of the syllabus. They wont bat an eyelid while pirating and give a sh** about it when pointed out that they are die hard M$ fans and should be paying their hero. The whole college merrily uses all pirated stuff. The Computer dept head is a M$ zombie, does not care either.
Really nice.
Not only the multimedia part but even engineering students are made to learn some heavy tech software for manufacturing, design (Can't recollect the exact thing) that costs above 1 lakh to purchase. An electronics engg student once asked me for some PCB designing software that was proprietary. I recollected you mentioning a foss alternative and found 'pcb' on the net and installed it in the system. However the class did not want it. Unless quality begins at the top, things won't improve so easily.
without doubt. When the teachers have no morals what do you expect from students. And it's not some struggling government college but a very well funded, fat fee charging institution.
For the record PCB and GEDA works very well, even for high density SMT boards. We have switched completely.