[ale] [OT] Interesting Take on MS Programming Tools

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Nov 26 21:55:16 EST 2002


Bwahahaha! Better hope he has a sense of humor!

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 14:22, Irv Mullins wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 November 2002 12:59 pm, you wrote:
> 
> > What really annoyed me was this professor (at Macon State College, BTW)
> > so happily preaching the M$ gospel.  This is not an isolated incident at
> > MSC.  For most of the courses taught, they have a 100% M$ push.  In one
> > class, the professor asked about a hypothetical network deployment.  The
> > "correct" answer was "deploy x M$ servers", regardless of technical
> > merit.  Thus, I got many of his projects "wrong" by suggesting Linux,
> > until I figured out his bent and did what he wanted.
> 
> Simple. I would have answered, 
> "If I wanted to set up a functional network,I would use Linux.
> However, my goal is to pass this test, not get something working, so for that 
> I would choose M$ servers with......"
> 
> Irv
> 
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