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Glad to see Cal quitting MSFT. Perhaps they're looking for a donation from Schmidt (alum). Gates hasn't given to Berkeley afaik while he has to Stanford. Yes I
by redwood 15y ago
Glad to see Cal quitting MSFT. Perhaps they're looking for a donation from Schmidt (alum). Gates hasn't given to Berkeley afaik while he has to Stanford. Yes I acknowledge this is a cynical perspective but perhaps makes sense considering public universities are so strapped for cash while privates keep on getting donations.
- tikhonj 15y agoOn the other hand, they just signed a contract providing Microsoft licenses to all the students, which is unfortunate. Earlier they did the same with Adobe. This is their solution to lowering costs--lets provide Microsoft and Adobe products to everybody! I, naturally, disapprove, but that has never mattered...
- rbanffy 15y agoTheir students are smart. The'll figure out there are better solutions. And having seen how not to do it is also an invaluable lesson. ;-) (Burn, karma, burn)
- tikhonj 15y agoI don't think most of the people taking, say, a class on Nabokov will complain much about needing Microsoft Word. In fact, I suspect the only inconvenienced person will be the lone EECS major using Linux (me :)). As long as professors want hard copies, it won't be an issue. (Using MLA format with LaTeX is really, really easy.) However, some do expect digital copies for whatever reason. I've seen them ask for docs uploaded to the internal class website system, which is itself pretty horrible. I just hope I don't have to deal with it--even opening LibreOffice is more annoying than one could hope.
- rbanffy 15y agoIt could be worse. The class website could be a Sharepoint portal.