Thanks for you reply :D
I totally agree with you in that point ! Those schools/universities exist to
learn us how to Program and how to use in a clever way all the technologies
that we have in our hands, and not to learn a specific technology that will
block our views and our way of working outside (even for those that don't
support the Free Software Movement).
Here in Portugal all the Universities teach the same, but they use sometimes
different software, they can me more or less open to Free Software. And what
they teach us is this :
- Java Console and Visual (AWT, SWING or JavaFX) --> Netbeans
- C# Console and Visual (Windows Forms) --> Visual Studio
- UML --> Visual Paradigm in most cases
- Database (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL or OracleDB) --> Mostly Microsoft SQL
Server
- Multimedia and Design --> Adobe Flash, Adobe After Efects, Adobe Photoshop
etc...
- 2D/3D Development --> Ogre, OpenGL and DirectX
The usage is almost Windows, Windows, Windows... sometimes Windows... and
other times when Windows is not available, we can use Windows.
I think that the only thing that I can easily fight against to start is the
use of Windows in my personal computer. They already tried to make me use
Windows even on a Virtual Machine, and I said NO ! Because using it at school
if there is no other option is one thing since it is their machines and I can
do the effort (Windows or any other non Free Operating System/Software) if
there is really no other option, but use it on my personal computers is a big
NO and they already tried to force me using that with homeworks, insisting on
a short time work (for example, do a work from one day to another) to make me
almost impossible to use the computers at school.
Playing the religious card isn't a little bit low :S ? I mean I have nothing
against them, and, as you said "Free software is not a religion although add
in a deity and it probably would be", but I think that, even if this could
work since I am in Portugal (it is like if I was in Brazil, or better (please
don't take this as offensive), if I was in USA and use the Patriotism Card to
defend myself with this).
