Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:03:13 -0400 From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shipping a computer coast to coast Message-ID: <1618777600.20010419170313@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419143603.045e61e0@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419100521.046ad5f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419093136.0461d220@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104190002040.17317-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <200104190647.f3J6l2m70554@ns1.unixathome.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419093136.0461d220@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419100521.046ad5f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419143603.045e61e0@localhost>
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Thursday, April 19, 2001, 4:40:55 PM, Brett Glass wrote: BG> At 02:10 PM 4/19/2001, Neill Robins wrote: >>Nope, I am attending (a few courses) at North Carolina State >>University. Sometimes, though, I feel like Microsoft has a pretty big >>hold on them. A few weeks ago they were happily dishing out Windows XP >>to anyone that wanted one and they recruit a bunch down here. BG> Wasn't NCSU the school that, at the behest of Microsoft, wanted to BG> require every student to have a Windows laptop? I seem to remember BG> that faculty and students who favored the Mac and UNIX were protesting BG> this. I also recall that some faculty members who were pushing for the BG> Microsoft laptops had posted ads for Microsoft Internet Explorer on BG> their Web sites on University-owned computers, and were part of the BG> same "Microsoft Scholars" program. This was in 1998 or 1999, so I BG> don't know if you were there at the time. BG> --Brett Yeah, '98 was when I first transferred there, and they were planning on making students buy laptops. I am glad they didn't, though. They whole school is definitely Microsoft-ized, and the only departments that don't use them are the graphics (Macs, of course) and CS/engineering. One interesting note though. They don't have Internet Explorer on ANYTHING on campus, only Netscape 4.75. Some classes even require IE (some crappy Flash work for assignments). It's horrible. If they spent half the money on UNIX equipement that they spent on Micrsoft stuff..... Later, -Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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