[PLUG] Article in Linux Today about M$ kill UNIX at Universities..

[Richard June]

Josh Guffin wrote:
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> 
> >    Along came Micro$oft, willing to give us all the software for a new lab,
> > (hand in hand with a hefty hardware donation, complete with snazzy flatscreens)
> > and, far more importantly, willing to give out the development environment
> > for free to all students enrolled in the course.  There would be no need
> > to try to come up with a hundred new work stations -- most of the students
> > could work on their own PC's.  And we all know what operating system the
> > vast majority of those PC's would be running.
> >    It wasn't the best solution.  It was the *only* solution to our crushing
> > lack of sufficient lab space.
> 
> So is there a restriction on OS use?  Why not just throw Open or
> FreeBSD on there?  I don't think it's to much for CS majors to learn
> the very basics of vi, pico, or emacs.  Makefiles shouldn't take up to
> much lecture time.  Wow, you're learning Real Programming.
One of the reasons I left school, I wanted to learn not a training
course on how to use MS products. If I wanted that I would have gone
into CPT :-).