Re: [OS:N:] (no subject)
James Michael DuPont <[email protected]>
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--- Access Systems <[email protected]> wrote: > when I was in the University (in the dark ages) there was no concept > of > "owning" software...(Had time share on a UNIVAC 1108 if I recall > correctly) so this idea of signing ones life away attend a public > university seems counter intuitive....My daughter went to a community > college and the REQUIRED as a freshman that the student take a course > in > Windows?? she didn't want to rock the boat in her first semester but > she > was a Mac user and hated it...if I returned to university as a grad > student I have wondered if I would be able to do so using open source > software???? That is one of the things that it is increasingly hard to do. More and more universities require you to use non-free file formats for exchanging file formats with you teachers. They have published requirements for windows as the basic system requirements. That is something that should be rooted out IMHO ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>