[NTLUG:Discuss] Internet Explorer?

[Smitty]

Dennis Myhand wrote:
> 
> Hi Rick:
> 
> How they can tell is (they think) by the type of work you turn in.  If it is a
> MS.doc document then they are certain you are complying with their rules and not
> doing something devious and un-American like using Star Office and saving your
> work as a MS document.  I really hate to say it but this school of mine has gone
> totally MS in the last year.  The head of my department even refers to open
> source as "the Linux bunch and their socialist business model."  It is sad when
> we equate the freedom of the academic ideal to be considered nothing more than a
> "socialist business model."

Who is the head of your department?  This guy is badly misinformed.  I
am politically a libertarian - very far from socialist - who uses linux
and advocates open source.  I would like to phone this guy and
straighten him out.  

Smitty

> 
> I did look through the MS site today at work and found IE4 for Unix, and a
> Solaris IE5 listed on the site.  I have no intention of putting IE on my Linux
> box, nor on my Solaris 8 box.  It ain't gonna happen, I don't care if they do
> find out I use Star Office and start knocking points off.  Thanks, Dennis in
> Waco
> 
> Rick Cook wrote:
> 
> > > (sadly), my school has embraced the darkside and become an all Microsoft
> > > shop, to the extent of taking point off from students who do not use MS
> > > products.  Thanks, Dennis in Waco
> >
> > Just out of curiousity, how can they tell what products you are using?
> >
> > Rick
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> >