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A Monocultural Alternative: TheOpenCD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the or-at-least-a-nicer-monoculture dept.

GooseLiverPate writes "Computers and Composition Online has an article by Dr. Paul Cesarini concerning the risks of a Microsoft monoculture in education. He describes the relation between Open Source and Microsoft as: "one of gnats swarming around a large, slow-moving beast." and emphasises the lack of innovation in Internet Explorer and MS-Office. He suggests TheOpenCD as a possible bridge for schools and universities to Open Source, and includes a review of the newly released version 1.2."

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  1. gnu/Hurd : Dead at 12! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Its offical, Gnu/Hurd is dead..

  2. Amusing Usenet Kooks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you find Usenet kooks amusing check out David Tholen:

    He hangs out in rec.music.classical, although he's also active on OS/2 newsgroups.

    He writes these crazy lists of people he considers are antagonistic towards him, although even asking him a single, simple question can get you added to the list. Check it out:

    http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie =U TF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=bpiesb%24r1p%241%40online.de &prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe% 3DUTF-8%26group%3Drec.music.classical

    or just search rec.music.classical for the word `antagonist`.

    He's inspired the following site.

    http://members.tripod.com/~tholen_of_borg/

  3. The wit and wisdom of the Dalai Lama by mattjb0010 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This t-shirt says it best: "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito -- Dalai Lama".

  4. THE PARENT IS A TROLL! by early_troll_warning_ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My job is done in this thread. No thanks required.

  5. Re:Use may be expensive, but threat is cheap. by stephanruby · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Iraq never threatened the US. Get your history straight. Saddam even asked and received the permission from the US to invade Kuwait. Besides, that 87 billion is not all directly going to Iraq, most of it is going the military and American companies for "rebuilding" Iraq.

  6. Exactly right. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Exactly right. See this: History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories

    As Dave Letterman said on his national TV talk show, when you make out the check to help pay for the $87,000,000,000, there are two "L"s in Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's company. (It's called "using the power of government to help your friends get rich"; it's 100% government corruption.)

    However, it is not that there was a threat, only that there was a perceived threat. Quite possibly the threat to go to OS X was not real, and also only a perceived threat.

  7. Anyone ever read the Aesop fable of the Elephant? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apparently the elephant had nothing to fear and was a real bad dude...

    One day a gnat flew in his ear. He got an infection and died... Awww *sniff*...

  8. a large, slow-moving beast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Certainly not a mare? Mares are large fast-moving beasts! And unlike Microsoft, sexy too!