Re: [ossig] University curriculum for OSS?

["Loke KS" <lks@webpres.com.my>]

> > My point: Unis teach concepts and technology, how you define and slice
it is
> > debatable, and teaching one does not invalidate the other.
> >
> > On the other hand, the other question is does OSS have any computing
> > concepts or valuable experiences that is useful to students. Ok, some
say,
> > as a social-technology subject. But no core computing concepts can be
> > distilled from OSS, as a movement, as a development & programming
> > methodology, as distribution mechanism, as literature?
> >
>
> i think os is good as teaching vehicles to demonstrate
> fundamental concept in cs, also good candidate for final
> year research projects,
> provided that the lecturers know how to map the concepts to
> the specific components in os.

Yes, I think we all agree. My questions was to foster a bit of
Out_Of_The_Box lateral thinking on OSS teaching in the varsity, instead of
the usual ...


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