[NTLUG:Discuss] Internet Explorer?

[Steve Baker]

Dennis Myhand wrote:
> 
> Hi Rick:
> 
> How they can tell is (they think) by the type of work you turn in.  If it is a
> MS.doc document then they are certain you are complying with their rules and not
> doing something devious and un-American like using Star Office and saving your
> work as a MS document.  I really hate to say it but this school of mine has gone
> totally MS in the last year.  The head of my department even refers to open
> source as "the Linux bunch and their socialist business model."  It is sad when
> we equate the freedom of the academic ideal to be considered nothing more than a
> "socialist business model."

Perhaps we should get together a collection of businesses (like the one I work for)
who really need graduates with Linux expertise - and write letters to these colleges
asking "if it is true that we'll no longer be able to recruit their graduates due
to some change of computing policy"...with a suitably incredulous tone to the letters.

I bet that would get their attention *real* quick.

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