[wplug] Re: .Net Launch

[Bryon Gill]

I can also report that some researchers in the Learning Research and
Development Department use linux for their work.  Some of those folks are
doing some really groundbreaking research into the use of AI in education.



Of course, this was Summer '99.  I hope linux has gained ground there
since.


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Bryon Gill (aka abe ferlman)


On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, David Matthews wrote:

> Although Pitt is in some way beginning to acknowledge that some
> students/faculty/staff like to use Linux.  They just opened up a lab of
> Linux workstations  - and note that these aren't even
> math/science/engineering/cs-specific workstations [although they do have
> software for those fields installed], they're just general-purpose Linux
> desktop machines.  I haven't been over there yet, but plan on checking this
> lab out soon.
> -dgm
>
> --On Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:22 PM -0500 Rick Harris
> <ftumph at yahoo.com> wrote:r
> > 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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