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University At Buffalo Endorses Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the well-put dept.

Math421 writes "The Faculty Senate at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, approved a resolution endorsing Open Source for the campus. They explicitly suggest Linux and OpenOffice." While this is just one school, the document collects in one compact list many of the things that make a lot of conventional software (including Microsoft's) expensive in terms of freedom and privacy as well as money. Other schools' students and faculty members would do well to read it.

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  1. Interesting... by ewhenn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As I was a student there in 2000, they had signed a contract with Microsoft, basically giving all staff and students free copies of Office 2000, Win2000, etc. Quite a drastic change in a short time frame, transitioning from exclusively MS office products to endorsing open source.

    1. Re:Interesting... by poofmeisterp · · Score: 2, Insightful

      MS probably jerked them around on this "free software" deal and tried to bill them for it when economic times got tough. I'd bet you that's what this is about :)