there was a vandalized flyer? i never heard of that :( was it at least funny?
--mat On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:53, Sonja Solomon wrote: > FYI in relation to the Universities: > > I went to our NSF Review Board meeting and the Head guy actually said why > didn't we have the CD we wanted to put out afterall M$ Word is all we needed > for our program's CD because everyone has word. Two pages of a Word > document on a CD for a program presentaion! Crap in, Crap out. To know how > bad things are in the education dept, just look at the people in charge. > > The ONLY one person to complain about a posting of Mat's ULOSLUG was in the > ULL IT dept. And the only flyer I saw vandalized was in the BSAT building. > Thank god for the few in CMPS. > > I hope to be out of here by Feb. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "will hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 12:09 PM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] No free software at LSU? > > > > > The M$ rep at the ACM OS shout off a few weeks promised that there would > be no further restrictions for the no cost software M$ was going to provide > CS students at LSU. He claimed that they would simply be bound by the > (already unacceptable) EULAs M$ wants to foist on everyone. I wish that I > had known enough to ask him what kinds of restrictions he had put on LSU > staff. > > > > Sole source contracts are a big no-no in normal state purchasing. This > should especially be true in the fiercely competitive world of software. If > M$ has pulled this on LSU, the people who got suckered should hang their > heads in shame. > > > > So, is this silly restriction on superior software campus wide? Has > someone really sold LSU's soul to Redmond? Are all LSU accademic, health > center, library and traffic records now open to Back Orifice and Microsoft's > infamous desktop? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
