Pravab

Due to the licensing of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS), every user of F/LOSS can enjoy the freedoms and rights that it has to offer. Information and communication technology (ICT) recently has been recognised to play an important role for organisations to be able to meet its business objectives. Even the educational institute have realised the potential it has to offer but due to the high implementation cost and maintenance of the ICT infrastructure, educational institute mainly in the developing countries have been deprived of its use. The study indicates that with the availability of F/LOSS as an alternative, most of the education sector in developing countries have been able to enjoy the benefit ICT has to offer. In the context of Nepal, when the Ministry of education realised the potential of educational sector benefiting for the ICT, they initiated programs to integrate it in the education sector. One Laptop per Child (OLPC) model is the best example to consid...

From the collected data it can be seen that most of the teachers are using dual boot operating systems (i.e. both Microsoft windows and GNU/Linux) in both their home (50%) and educational institute (57%) whereas the students seem to prefer using only Microsoft Windows operating systems in both home (50%) and educational institute (45%). Even though most of the students tend to are using only Microsoft Windows, it is interesting to see the use of GNU/Linux as the only operating system used in both of the places (17% and 15% in educational institute and home respectively). It can be interpreted that some percentage of the students favour GNU/Linux operating system over the rest whether it is just for educational projects, normal projects or other purpose. The data also suggests that the dual boot operating system is popular in both the educational sector (36%) and in the home desktop (29%). With a high percentage of students using GNU/Linux operating system and dual boot operating sys...

The term Free/Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS) has evolved from two terminologies: Free/Libre Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) (Brock et al. , 2009). The difference between these two kinds of software is that Free Software focuses on moral and ethical issues and stresses on the user rights toward a software whereas the Open Source goes for a corporate approach (Tong, 2004; Brock et al. , 2009). F/LOSS is licensed differently than existing proprietary software license and gives the users freedom under certain conditions so that everyone could enjoy those rights and freedom as well (Brock et al. , 2009). F/LOSS is developed and nurtured by the community of hackers all over the world (Subramanyam and Xia, 2008; Hauge a t al. , 2010 ) . ‘Instead of viewing this community as a threat, high-tech companies like IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Sun Microsystems have come to rely upon it, selling software applications and services built to ride atop the ever-growing free software i...

ABSTRACT “The advances in all of the arts and sciences, indeed the sum total of human knowledge, are the result of the open sharing of ideas, theories, studies and research. Yet throughout many school systems, the software in use on computers is closed and locked, making educators partners in the censorship of the foundational information of this new age” (Vessels, 2001). Many countries for example Brazil, Malaysia etc. have been implementing Free/Libre and Open Source software (F/LOSS) in some of the sectors and have benefited from introducing F/LOSS. The realistic behind the Brazilian government adopting FOSS policy is based on economics, development and ideology. Developing countries should take these countries as an example and start initiating F/LOSS in different phases for different sector.  The paper examines the motivation for people in developing countries to use F/LOSS. It also examines how the education sector in developing countries have implemented and ...