Sonja Solomon wrote: > Same here to both of you. Just about anything from Micro$oft is expensive > in the long or short run. If they don't get you one way, M$ will overcharge > you somewhere else. I do believe it induces the brain into a partial coma > that affects the independent thinking process. I am amazed at how many in > the university setting are brainwashed and taught to be helpless. Speaking > from experience, it is a long and hard battle to educate my students on the > rest of the world.
I think one of the M$ allures students find interesting is the user base and thus the potential to write that "killer app" that makes their fortune or to work for a large software house eventually making Senior Programmer and lots of money. Developement for Linux doesn't come with that type of reward. My impression of the software industry today though leads me to believe that there are fewer and fewer such opportunites due to consolidation. Microsoft is using its monopoly power to literally take over the business. This is one reason more software developers are choosing to develop open source. There's a burgeoning small contractor business for Gnu/Linux that presents great opportunity to the self-starter. There's also a great need for killer apps on Linux. So by developing that killer app for Linux, the software developer creates a brand for himself and finds business. -- Craig Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
