Vickram, your tone makes it look like everything is
our fault.
We cannot switch over to Firefox/Linux for one simple reason.
Most students here are from a Rural background and won't be able to
adjust to new stuff. They had a tough time adjusting from Windows 7 to
XP when the rollback was done due to issues with Turbo C++ and
Microsoft COBOL compiler.
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On 12/13/11, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2011/12/14 Vickram Crishna
<vvcrishna(a)radiophony.com>om>:
Pardon my intrusion on this thread, but within
reason*, if any college or
other educational institution chooses to be 'proprietary only' (never mind
antediluvian - IE6? really? or is that an XP issue?) FOSSers are prepared
to
take it up 'officially' with them, reminding them of the nation's
commitment
to education without strings attached. This is fyi to listers, and I
shan't
mention it again, but please do consider notifying your friendly
neighbourhood FOSSer with details of the person to contact
(principal/director etc) for assistance and action. This in turn will get
reflected to a FOSS forum (fosscomm is one such) and will hopefully result
in notifying the institution concerned as well as the possibility of a
local
FOSS-based firm offering upgrade services.
*ie FOSS as a movement is in continuous need of resources as well, but
education is a major priority
It is a very valid point. Installing Firefox or at least updating to
IE8 on Windows XP costs nothing and has very tangible and
easy-to-demonstrate benefits for language support. Wiki Community
members should BE BOLD and tell libraries, schools and colleges that
they should do it.
While you are at it, make sure that auto-updates are enabled and
consider installing a version of Firefox with menus translated to the
local language (see
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html ; if
you can't find it your language, see
https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n .)
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Amir E. Aharoni
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
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