Re: [ossig] University curriculum for OSS?

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

In the early days of UNIX, schools can't afford to pay expensive license for 
software and OS. and AT&T was practically giving away the source code fora 
few penny.  Universities make student port unix to PDP as a project.  I can 
immagine the same thing for linux and FreeBSD on other plantform, perhaps 
asking students to brind anything resemble a computing device of their 
choosing and ask them to port netBSD to their playstation. 

It doesn't have to be an OS though. Stuff like Videolan, X are very 
interesting and they are all started out and university projects.

On Friday 25 July 2003 12:54 pm, Loke KS wrote:
> Traditionally Universities have been using to Unix to teach various
> computing concepts, etc.. and open source have also originated from
> universities eg. research work is more or less opensource -- published
> papers and source code is available for download. I am thinking perhaps
> there is something that can taught under the OSS topic ...
>
> > I was exposed to Open Source in University under the subject of 
> > Operating Systems. We have to learn and compare how Operating Systems
> > does their CPU Scheduling, Memory Management and such. We used Linux,
> > then was red hat,
>
> to
>
> > demo and test out various functions.
> >
> > Then during final year, i was thought a small deal of Unix when i took
> > TCP/IP programming. I guess you cant do much programing on a very low
>
> level
>
> > using expensive Visual Studio.
> >
> > So I think Open Source is gaining grounds in the universities but not
> > directly. You have to take into account that universities do not teach a
> > specific product but rather the concept of computing.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Loke KS <lks@webpres.com.my>
> > To: <myoss@my-opensource.org>; <ossig@mncc.com.my>
> > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:01 PM
> > Subject: [ossig] University curriculum for OSS?
> >
> > > 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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