Canadian academia and open source

Jamon Camisso jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Tue Oct 18 12:47:48 UTC 2005


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

Two URLs you might find useful:
http://open.utoronto.ca/
http://main.library.utoronto.ca/

Jamon Camisso
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