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Big Company on Campus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the revenge-of-the-nerds dept.

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."

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  1. oh great by jared_hanson · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Every article now get a variation on this comment moderated up to +5 funny. The first time I laughed, the second time I chuckled a little. Now, however, it is just old.

    Well, welcome to the next overused Slashdot meme. The herd mentality in all its glory. Someone gets a +5 for posting it the first time, and then the whole world follows. If moderators had more sense, they could really improve the quality of Slasdot comments by thinking about how they moderate, instead of giving into all these "me too, me too" posts.

    Note to mods: There is a redundant option, USE IT!

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