On 12/13/11, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> 2011/12/14 Vickram Crishna <
vvcrishna@radiophony.com>:
>> 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 .)
>
> --
> Amir E. Aharoni
>
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