Re: [ossig] University curriculum for OSS?

[Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@polyscientific.com.my>]

I am not sure, this sounds like a history lesson and social science class 
rather than a CS class.  I generally think to promote OSS and teach them in 
the university, you need to have all the toold available and teach the 
students how to use them.  It reminds me of a local university who tell 
students how powerful Solaris is but only allow students to look at sparc 
station behind a glass window. 

The first step I think is to have labs with of linux or FreeBSD workstation 
and force student to do almost everything in that environment. from typing 
paper to sending e-mails.  Students can play with windows at home when they 
want to. In time, students will care less about the platform and more about 
familiarity with the OS. This is after all, why windows is so popular. 

On Friday 25 July 2003 12:01 pm, Loke KS wrote:
> There was some talk earlier about universities not teaching about OSS, etc,
> etc... So if you were to plan a one semester subject on OSS, what topics
> would be in? Assuming a computer science degree, some basic Unix stuff
> would have been taught, eg. gcc, awk, make, etc.. also bearing in mind the
> need to balance theory and practice .. what could be taught????
>
> Perhaps, ..like ..
>
> 0. Origins of  Free Software and OSS
> 1. Philosophy of OSS
> 2. Legal aspects of OSS
> 3. OSS development model
> 4. Tools of OSS.
>
> Can somebody add on or elaborate ..??
>
>
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