I am a student at Penn State and we are exmining this story in an ethics in technology in class on Thursday afternoon. The issue is whether Bill Gates is ethical in his business practices, given the state of the Freeware movement. Please note, many of the students in this class didn't know before this article that there was another operating system available for PCs. Tehy have only seen Macs and WinNT.
I'll post some notes about our discussion of this topic after class Thursday.
The US postoffice is ripe to die off as well. With the way that stamp prices keep increasing, why should someone use snail-mail when email is not going to have postage rates, and gets there faster without the unhappy carrier? Plus, I don't think too many email admins are going to come to work with a machine gun because they're upset about zip codes.
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Hey CmdrTaco... this sounds like a great poll topic:
How many times a week do you get a piece?
None
1-3
4-7
7-10
Are you kidding? I'm Hugh Hefner!
Whaddya think?
Laptops?? I'll believe DELL is committed to Linux when they start factory installs on their Laptops.
That's what started the whole Windows refund effort, you couldn't buy a Laptop with Linux on it!
JTFritz
I am a student at Penn State and we are exmining this story in an ethics in technology in class on Thursday afternoon. The issue is whether Bill Gates is ethical in his business practices, given the state of the Freeware movement. Please note, many of the students in this class didn't know before this article that there was another operating system available for PCs. Tehy have only seen Macs and WinNT.
I'll post some notes about our discussion of this topic after class Thursday.
Thanks Slashdot!
The US postoffice is ripe to die off as well. With the way that stamp prices keep increasing, why should someone use snail-mail when email is not going to have postage rates, and gets there faster without the unhappy carrier? Plus, I don't think too many email admins are going to come to work with a machine gun because they're upset about zip codes.