[wplug] Re: .Net Launch

[J Aaron Farr]

Just to clarify:

Pitt does give away free CDs of Microsoft OfficeXP, FrontPage and a number 
of other applications.  See this two links for a complete listing--
http://technology.pitt.edu/software/msstudents.html
and
http://technology.pitt.edu/software/toolkitcd.html
These CDs are avaliable year round for students.

Pitt also recently opened a new computer lab in the old Masonic Temple that 
has 20 Linux workstations running in it.  This is the beginning of an 
attempt to start integrating Linux into the university's computer system.  
If there are many pitt students on the list who want to support linux at the 
university, they should probably make it a point to use these new 
facilities.

-jaaron

>From: Rick Harris <ftumph at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: Re: [wplug] Re: .Net Launch
>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:22:13 -0500
>
>You could ask.  However I believe Pitt (for example) has a site license
>agreement with Microsoft.  Essentially the copies of Windows, Office, etc.
>that they give their students to use are free.  They pay a fixed amount
>regardless of how many copies get installed, so there's no real incentive 
>for
>them to offer an alternative.
>
>In fact, they have a disincentive as any software they give away is 
>software
>that their support people are going to have to deal with.  They'd rather 
>have
>everybody on the same thing.
>
>Of course I could be completely wrong, or they may be open to saving on the
>site license cost by moving over to Linux as the main OS.  (See previous
>argument over which distribution to suggest :-)
>
>- Rick
>
>On Wednesday 30 January 2002 20:34, you wrote:
> > On the evangelism idea,
> > and how to make the LUG and Linux better known,
> > local universities (Pitt, say) have a week, at the
> > start of the semester, where they give CDs to their
> > students, loaded with Windows-based stuff. Microsoft
> > OSs, office, etc, also some non-MS software.
> > I wonder if Linux CDs could be distributed during
> > those days.
> >
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