__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Wednesday 06 September 2006 07:15 \__
> Open Source and Higher Education
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> | Head over to Inside Higher Ed (online source for news, opinion and jobs
> | for all of higher education) and read the synopsis, "Changing the Report,
> | After the Vote," which reveals how some people just do not like the
> | thought of open source regardless of the benefits its brings to us
> | all, including great software such as Snort, Wireshark, Netcat, John
> | the Ripper, OpenSSH, etc.
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> http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/93405/93405.html
>
> What's next? Will Microsoft start installing Linux in schools? Microsoft
> /already/ uses Linux 'in house'.
Add JoFoley to the club. With the "Hmmm..." reaction, it's evident that she's
not too impressed.
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| Elliott, in addition to overseeing Microsoft's public sector business,
| also sits on the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of
| Higher Education. (In her Commission role, Elliott supposedly represents
| the workforce's ? not Microsoft's interests.) But Elliott managed to
| have struck from the report language that advocated "incentives to
| promote the development of open-source and open-content projects at
| universities and colleges across the United States." Hmmm.
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http://tinyurl.com/zyzh5
I'd expect her to be shunned from Education's Commission. If not, then the
government is simply corrupted. Reminds me of Google's loose and indirect
connections with the US intelligence services.
Best wishes,
Roy
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