Canadian academia and open source

[James Knott]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> I'm doing a little research, and I'm wondering if anyone here can help
> with this: which universities in Canada are friendliest to open source
> and which are the most hostile?
> 
> There can be many factors in this, including (but not limited to):
> - the amount OSS is taught in CompSci
> - Awareness and support of open development models outside CompSci
> - the amount of FOSS used internally in administration
> - the scale of cheap-software deals struck with Microsoft
> - the level of freedom/suppression of open source advocacy
> - specific instructors who are particularly friendly or hostile
> 
> I'm looking for any data I can find on any and all Canadian universities.
> Feel free to reply to me personally or to the list as you feel
> appropriate. All confidences will be honoured.

Here's a couple that are switching to OpenOffice.

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-09/sunflash.20050927.2.html
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-05/sunflash.20040527.1.html

And Western is using StarOffice.

http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Network-World/ed798d02-ea8d-429b-8bad-b84ae9385326.html
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