Make Anna University Syllabus Vendor Neutral

The Anna university syllabus touches the lives of most Engineering students in TamilNadu.And the current syllabus both explicitly and implicitly mandates specific brand names.We believe that this benefits monopoly software vendors and leads to a technology dependence that is not healthy for our country in the long run.

All we are asking for is that brand names should not be mandated because:

The education system must teach *principles* and not *products.* For example, we should teach "word processing" and not XYZ brand of word processor.

The Anna university syllabus can be examined here.

They are forcing the students to learn Microsoft Visual C++,MFC. This implicitly forces the colleges and students to use the operating system provided by the same monopoly vendor Microsoft.(for more details look at the subject with code cs1253 and cs 1255 in the above link)

The university also specifies the list of softwares that should be used in the laboratory to train the students:

This include:

1. Adobe Photoshop

2.Macromedia Director

3.Macromedia Flash

4.Macromedia Dream Weaver

5.Rational Rose

6.Microsoft Visual studio

7.Oracle

8.Microsoft .NET and more

Please don't teach us products and make us addicted to the dangerous drug called proprietary software.

Inspirations and references:

http://osindia.blogspot.com/2009/01/making-cbse-syllabus-vendor-neutral.html

http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Syllabus_Review