What you are talking about is not a problem over here at UL. I am in one of the lower level CS classes... We work on dual boot linux boxes where we slogin to one of the numerous sun blades downstairs and use Sun's CC compiler. We also worked a little with g++. So far we haven't touched vc++, but are told that we will in the future.
I find that there is a fair representation of operating systems on campus. There is even a Mac/Windows lab in the Math building. As far as the university system administrators, i hear thats a different story (sonja would know more about that :) But then, there is also no gentoo.louisiana.edu or anything of that sort :( --mat On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:26, Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, michael dolan wrote: > > > I think I need to clarify things a bit here. I don't think LSU has a > > problem with open source. They have this <http://www.redhat.lsu.edu> > > <http://www.redhat.lsu.edu> and there is now an offshoot of the it > > don't forget debian.math.lsu.edu. > Yeah you are right finally its the student worker who would be scared > > > It doesn't have anything to do with grants, funding, M$ kickbacks, or > > even LSU. It boils down to one student worker that doesn't understand > > or like open source, and other people not understanding or caring. > > Most of the CS students(that I have taked with) don't care as long as they > get paid or haplessly ignorant that even an alternative exists. What i am > disappointed is that the CS dept is not even interested in providing > students with round the clock computing facility(honestly that is really > lame) let alone proving open source software. > > As will was telling earlier MS is opening a program that would give all > the CS major students *Free* (as in use now and get addicted to it) MS > software. The only condition is that you can't sell the software but you > can continue to use it as long as you want to. The only reason why MS is > targeting college students is because that's where their future is. That's > the reason why they don't want to crack down on piracy for individuals. > Honestly its a smart move but i am glad that OpenSource and Linux has got > MS' tail between its legs. I hope this the begining of the end for their > monopoly. > > Karthik > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
