Z:gnu-www-ja-rms-kol--741f04-The West Bengal govt has an op/en

The West Bengal govt has an opportunity to adopt a policy of firm leadership in this regard. This will give a boost to human resource development. Free Software respects people's freedom. Govt has an influence on the future of society. Choosing which software to teach students: if you teach them Windows, they will be Windows users. For something else, they need to learn, and make the effort to learn something else. Microsoft knows this. So it donates Windows to schools. Addiction (through using unauthorised software use) only helps them. They didn't want to leave anything to choice, so they give Windows free to schools. Like injecting a dose. The first dose is gratis. Afterwards it's not gratis, either for them or their employers. This is a way to impose their power on the rest of society and its future. Schools have a mission to society. This mission requires teaching students to live in freedom, teaching skills to make it easy to live in freedom. This means using Free Software.