[NTLUG:Discuss] Internet Explorer?

[Allen Flick]

Maybe we could get an email address and then all of us could, by stating
facts and leaving out the emotion, let the *gentleman* know that his
bias has been made know to more than just the students under his charge.

Oh yeah, how about a name & email to his department head.

Smitty wrote:

> 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."
>
> Who is the head of your department?  This guy is badly misinformed.  I
> am politically a libertarian - very far from socialist - who uses linux
> and advocates open source.  I would like to phone this guy and
> straighten him out.
>
> Smitty
>
> >
> > I did look through the MS site today at work and found IE4 for Unix, and a
> > Solaris IE5 listed on the site.  I have no intention of putting IE on my Linux
> > box, nor on my Solaris 8 box.  It ain't gonna happen, I don't care if they do
> > find out I use Star Office and start knocking points off.  Thanks, Dennis in
> > Waco
> >
> > Rick Cook wrote:
> >
> > > > (sadly), my school has embraced the darkside and become an all Microsoft
> > > > shop, to the extent of taking point off from students who do not use MS
> > > > products.  Thanks, Dennis in Waco
> > >
> > > Just out of curiousity, how can they tell what products you are using?
> > >
> > > Rick
> > > --
> > > rcook at ntlug.org
> > > rcook at hex.net
> > >
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