The fact that they paid technology fees doesn't mean that they paid for the service that they took. It doesn't mean the technology fees weren't for the services they helped themselves to either. If I go to a grocery store, I can't take whatever I want even though I've paid them for food. The grocery store analogy doesn't fit because at the store, you purchase a specific product one time. This deals with different services sold by the university avaialable over a period of time.
Many have brought up the incorrect point that these students were not paying for their access. However,a quick and easy check of the okstate.edu site reveals that students pay anywhere from $5 to $15 per credit hour for "Technology Fees" Some paying $100 dollar hours for computer fees. Also fees abound for mainframes.
The best qoute from that article has to be "Other schools have discovered open source Linux as an alternative operating system, usually because they happen to have clued-in technical co-ordinators."
A few others were inquiring about personal Alpha machines, so I thought I'd add. My Alpha box sports a EV56 21164 running at 600 Mhz with 256 Mb of RAM. Total cost of around US$300. It's quite nice running RH 6.1 or NT Workstation 4.0
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Is Cobalt going to modify the hardware so people can run BSD and make everone that buys in after a certain date pay $21.95 for their online service?
The fact that they paid technology fees doesn't mean that they paid for the service that they took. It doesn't mean the technology fees weren't for the services they helped themselves to either. If I go to a grocery store, I can't take whatever I want even though I've paid them for food. The grocery store analogy doesn't fit because at the store, you purchase a specific product one time. This deals with different services sold by the university avaialable over a period of time.
Many have brought up the incorrect point that these students were not paying for their access. However,a quick and easy check of the okstate.edu site reveals that students pay anywhere from $5 to $15 per credit hour for "Technology Fees" Some paying $100 dollar hours for computer fees. Also fees abound for mainframes.
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The best qoute from that article has to be "Other schools have discovered open source Linux as an alternative operating system, usually because they happen to have clued-in technical co-ordinators."
A few others were inquiring about personal Alpha machines, so I thought I'd add. My Alpha box sports a EV56 21164 running at 600 Mhz with 256 Mb of RAM. Total cost of around US$300. It's quite nice running RH 6.1 or NT Workstation 4.0