From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 9 06:50:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA01041 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 06:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from dumbwinter.logic.it (mod6.logic.it [195.120.151.22] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA01025 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 06:50:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from molter@logic.it) Received: (qmail 1014 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Oct 1997 13:44:52 -0000 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 15:44:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: Marco Molteni To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199710090523.XAA01838@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > Another marketing channel we FreeBSDers must concentrate on is the > university. UNIX originally climbed into commercial existence > through the influence of young programmers entering the work > force with UNIX experience from their colleges and universities. > These days, colleges buy the "educational discount" versions of > VC++ and teach their graduates nothing but "how to write an MFC > app." Talk to professors and students at your {current, former} > universities. Get them to use FreeBSD. Get them to install > FreeBSD ftp servers on the campus net. Recruit a Doug White at > each and every college. Get them to stock FreeBSD CD-ROMs and > books in the bookstore. And get them to take FreeBSD to work with > them. ;^) I'm a student at the Computer Science Department of the Milan University, Italy (This is also the CERT Italy center). Our lab is ruled by HP-UX xterminals :-) You know what are they used for? Surfing the net with netscape, with hard core images in the root window. My collegues say: "hey dude, this (surfing the web + sex images) is cool. I just miss my home win95". No, I'm not joking :-(. I'm the only I know of to do my exams programs with Unix (guess which? I started with Linux, then switched to FreeBSD :-). All my friends carry to the examination room their home pc with their win95 or nt, and use visual C++. What a _SAD_ world, if I think that we students are *supposed* to be computer science experts, not marketing droids. Here at my university, bureaucracy rules (ie, you can't just say: "hey, a spare pc. Let me install FreeBSD and show you how it works"), but if Jordan is interested in a foreign country, I'll be glad to give him a list of my professors email addresses. Uhm, maybe it's better snail mail, so he could send them some gadgets, maybe the FreeBSD newsletter ;-) Cheers Marco Molteni Computer Science student at the Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy. "Whuffo you jump out of them airplanes?"