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[News] Indian University in Push for OSS and Linux Adoption

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| In line with its role as one of India's leading universities,
| Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has launched a 6-week workshop to
| expose more students to the benefits of FOSS.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Explaining the significance of the workshop, Professor Dr Andrew Lynn of
| the Bio-informatics Center, School of Information Technology, at JNU,
| says, "The bio-informatics community has adopted GNU/Linux and Open Source 
| Software. The most prolific tools in bio-informatics are not proprietary 
| tools but the statistical software package R, with its bio-informatics 
| modules, bio-conductor". (You can get more details from the web-site of the 
| Open Bio-informatics Foundation)
| 
| Besides, he adds, "Open Source Software in research has enormous benefits - 
| especially with relationship to cost for our country..."
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http://fossengineer.com/news/2006/07/16/indian-university-and-lug-join-hands-to-boost-open-source/

Does JUN stand for JNU is Not UNIX (recursive acronym)?

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