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MS: Use the Source, Luke!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the look-into-my-palantir dept.

McSpew writes: "The WSJ (via MSNBC) has an article about Microsoft's upcoming push to get universities to use .NET code in programming courses. Their code-sharing initiative is all about winning hearts-and-minds at the university level, where Linux and open-source rule the day. The article does a good job of explaining the issues and why MS may yet fail in spite of their push. I wish the article had discussed the reverse-engineering issues of needing 'virgins' who have never seen the product being reverse-engineered and how MS's newly broad distribution of its code makes finding virgins much more difficult."

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  1. Re:Uhh... no by heliocentric · · Score: 1, Troll

    We used to be able to check out mail using telnet (even art majors do that), now they are asking everybody to install Outlook express.

    Hmmm, I wonder what's more secure having students telnet and type their passwords in the clear or the bloated and buggy outlook?

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    Wheeeee
  2. Re:You misunderstand by Isle · · Score: 0, Troll

    But remember students who use Word scores lower grades.
    1. They spend more time page-setting.
    2. It looks like crap anyway, and crap looks unprofesional ;-)
    3. They show a completely lack of time-priority, this is usually evident everywhere as well in their report.

    I work as teacher assistend and I usually dump reports written in Word. Although never because they are written in Word, but because they suck!