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Hi,<br>
<br>
Today, every activity in Education heavily depends on computers and
so mostly on Microsoft Windows.<br>
<br>
New National Education Policy-2016 draft has recently been made
available to public for inputs.<br>
This whole draft does not refer Free and Open Source Software even
once !<br>
<br>
Free Software is the real future of tomorrow. Without Free Software,
Education Policy is meaningless.<br>
Friends, this new policy draft clearly indicates that Education and
in turn the whole Country will continue to be slave of Microsoft if
we don't act immediately.<br>
<br>
We must hang together and pressurize MHRD to make FOSS mandatory in
Education. This must be done before 31st July 2016, as this is the
last date given by MHRD to accept suggestions of citizens about
NEP-2016.<br>
Please sign the petition before 31st July 2016 and save our country
:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-mandating-use-of-free-and-open-source-software-in-new-education-policy-2016">https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-mandating-use-of-free-and-open-source-software-in-new-education-policy-2016</a><br>
<br>
This Petition is supported by Free Software Foundation (FSF, India),
Digital Freedom Foundation and many Linux and FOSS Groups.<br>
Kindly share this message as early as possible with maximum number
of FOSS lovers.<br>
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Thanks and Regards<br>
Milind<br>
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<b>"Yes. We need spread the word to all the groups to seek more
signatures. It is an important petition"</b><b><br>
</b><b> - Prof Nagarjuna G, </b><b><br>
</b><b>Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education,</b><b><br>
</b><b>Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai,</b><strong
style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br>
Chairman, FSF, India.</strong><b> </b><b><br
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