Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Open Source rising in N.Z. education
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| On staff we have people who contribute to a variety of different open
>| source projects, both through work and on their own time. It's not
>| unusual for a lunchtime curry to end up in a fierce argument about
>| the merits of different version control systems, window managers,
>| distributions of GNU/Linux, different Open Source licenses, and of
>| course, emacs vs vim. As we interview potential staff members, it's
>| not unusual to ask them to fix a bug on an Open Source project, and
>| submit a patch for review. And of course, when we hire new staff,
>| they arrive on their first day to an Ubuntu workstation.
> `----
>
> http://www.opensourcereporter.net/nzedu.html
Well, if they've come out of university, then they would probably have
had the same thing there anyway. If they haven't, then it will be an
excellent opportunity for them to learn something new.
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