From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 24 4:35: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.tfcc.com (tfcci.com [204.210.226.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FFF37B42C for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 04:34:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfuhrman@tfcci.com) Received: (from mail@localhost) by proxy.tfcc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA32479; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:35:01 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: proxy.tfcc.com: mail set sender to using -f Received: from icestorm.tfcc.com(192.168.4.115) by proxy.tfcc.com via smap (V2.1/2.1a) id xma032448; Tue, 24 Apr 01 07:34:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:34:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Fuhrman X-X-Sender: To: Brett Glass Cc: Neill Robins , , "Jeremy C. Reed" , Subject: Re: shipping a computer coast to coast In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419100521.046ad5f0@localhost> Message-ID: Organization: 21st Century Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Howdy, Am catching up on e-mail so my apologies for replying to a 5 day old post. My observation is that if the instructor is paid to, hmmm, "market" certain products and lock people into a Microsoft World, then that's a definite conflict of interest that should be brought up to the Department or the head of the Business school. A good argument is would you like your tuition and taxes paying for Microsoft advertising? Cheers! On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > You didn't happen to go to UT Austin, did you? Not long ago, I noticed > that UT's Business School had suddenly started teaching Web design > courses which caused the students to produce Web pages that ONLY worked > with Microsoft Internet Explorer. It turned out that one of their > instructors had been named a "Microsoft Scholar" -- and was being paid > to hawk products and create courses that would lock schools and students > into Microsoft software. > > --Brett > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -- Chris Fuhrman | Twenty First Century Communications cfuhrman@tfcci.com | Software Engineer (W) 614-442-1215 x271 | (F) 614-442-5662 | PGP/GPG Public Key Available on Request To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message