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Big Company on Campus
Daniel Dvorkin writes "MSNBC (oh, the irony) is running a scary article entitled Microsoft's big role on campus, detailing how Microsoft is working its way into academic computer science through a combination of bribery and propaganda. The aricle may be overstating the case, but it does make it sound as though MS products are displacing others at a disturbing rate in computer science departments. Given that academic computing has traditionally been both the source of and the stronghold for innovative software, this is a disturbing long-term trend."
IAALS.
If I'd known professors were that cheap, I'd have picked up a couple a long time ago.
Making stupid comments so you don't have to.
MS was selling their C compiler in our bookstore for REALLY cheap. FUnny thing was that all the CS dept was using Suns, so it was worthless.
Im glad
It works for the U.S. tobacco companies, so why not?
--rc
Naming rights for the first two letters of XXNBC now up for bid...
Ceci n'est pas un post.
I come home from work and my kid comes running up to be dressed like the MSN butterfly and says "Where do you want to go today." (in a robotic like tone)
Brainwashing I tell ya!!
"Its too hot out for a Penguin to be just walking around. - Billy Madison"
C'mon slashdot, what is with this Microsoft fetish lately? Get with it and keep up the SCO bashing for goodness sake!
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I, for one, welcome our new redmond overlords...
Oh wait! No, I don't!
I guess that school isn't as good as I though. Glad I didn't apply.
Put a lifelike effigy of a MS rep at each major entrance to campus.
Effigies made up to look like they've suffered the Death of a Thousand Cuts, only using sharpened slivers of Linux distribution CD-ROMs.
Also, encouraging grad students working in the IT offices to wear pirate costumes might help, Arrrr!
half the classes used Windows, the other half linux, and now, a few years later, I really cant remember which was which
Less binge drinking should clear than problem up
Its a good thing MS already bought the legislature or they'd have somthing to worry about.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
As opposed to wearing a poncho, playing a flute and chanting: "All software must be free - free as in beer and free as in speech! The prophet Richard M. Stallman said so and we'll happily give our lives to the Church of Emacs!"
BOO! TERRO
Perhaps industry is demanding a bit more of graduates than simply knowing how to program in Visual Basic these days???
yep, they're looking for graduates that can probram VB in India.
!(^((ri)|(mp))aa$)
According to MS Word, "campuses" is the correct plurality of campus.
Pluralizing it as if it were Latin would be misleading and pretentious, and pluralizing it with a double i just makes you look like a total idiot.
:)
Or perhaps it would make me look like a non-native english speaker? (which is the case)
OH well, don't let me ruin a perfectly good jump to a conclusion.
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
Wow, I guess daily contact with RMS is enough to drive people to some truly extreme measures...
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
And look at this way... Every dollar MS gives to schools is a dollar they don't have to give to SCO!
That would explain why their media player rises from the dead every time I install a service pack...
I'm thinking about it, therefore I might be.
I don't know, I'd say M$ware works at least as well as tobacco. Both give decent results in the short term, but eventually result in a fatal process crash. And hey, at least you can reboot your computer. I suppose if you're Hindu you believe you can reboot yourself, as well.
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
You mean to tell me there's something in this for me when I pick textbooks for my CS classes? All along I've been trying to choose the textbooks that I felt covered the material the best. And in many cases I've missed out on any kind of opportunity by forgoing a textbook and taking the time to select relevant research papers. What else am I missing out on?
How many of those books were written by faculty members?
If memory serves, most of my text books were written by faculty members somewhere. Just a thought.
Also, many of the people doing open source work started (and continue) because of their exposure to Windows.
;-)
Give me a break, the windows loving mods will mod you into oblivion most of the time simply for mentioning linux.
If your choices are "use J++ for the Java courses" or double tuition for Comp Sci students, I say go with J++.
Okay, and Java would be more expensive because it's free (as in free beer, which all students will be able to evaluate correctly)?
When I was recently at Stanford, I walked into _their_ William H. Gates building. Notwithstanding the appalling amount of corporate sellout in Palo Alto, the first thing you see when you enter is a touchscreen terminal with a big X11 "X" on it.