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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft chucks bargain bin at world's youth
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>> | The Redmond giant is teaming up with industry
>> | standards body the Institute of Electrical
>> | and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to give its
>> | student members gratis access to Microsoft
>> | development software, training, and job
>> | opportunities.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/19/microsoft_ieee_student_member_software/
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> I thought Linux commanded all the high wage
> positions these days!!!
>
> There is no need for IEEE to make students
> poorer in their present and in their future careers
> by advocating they use Luzer Software x Inc's products
> where x is micoshaft or any of its satellites.
>
> Linux now commands the highest wages and there is
> massive demand for Linux engineers to write code
> for next gen devices.
>
> Linux does sell some 5 to 10 million+ embedded
> Linux gadgets alone. Also things like gcc, eclipse is
> free, so is open office, Linux and all its source
> code. Micoshaft products don't come with any source
> code so it produces students that are too dumb
> to be useful for serious engineering projects.
Microsoft tried pulling something similar with the NSF and NASA this year.
They use GNU/Linux but take Microsoft's money to pretend that they
endorse Microsoft.
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~~ Best of wishes
"You are in a maze of twisted sysadmins, all different."
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