On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
There's no question of fault, and no need to take it that way. Every
journey needs that first step. However, your doubts have been addressed in
many different scenarios before, and really comes across more as FUD than
likely reality. You will probably be surprised. Having said which, it is
entirely possible that there are no FOSS service agencies in your area, who
could walk you (ie the college, details depending on how the upgrade is
mutually planned) through it. If you can describe where the college is,
perhaps the right persons can get in touch, and if this does not work out,
then you have the status quo in any case.
As a bonus, most machines that today run XP were designed a while back, and
it is very possible that the switch will come with tangible efficiency
benefits.
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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.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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