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Oni Link:
I cannot believe what I am seeing at schools these days. Everything is M$!
They brainwash the teachers who pass it on to the students who pass it on to their friends...... and so on.
We asked our IT teacher "why do we use M$ software and why do you enforce the use of M$?"
His reply was "Because they are 'CHEAPER', 'BETTER' software, more 'RELIABLE' and because M$ has a huge deal going with the State Governemnts.
He 'properly' believes that M$ is superior. They must have got to him! hehehehehe
They will never succumb unless this is stopped and people are informed earlier about OS's such as Linux.
Anyway I just wanted to know if any of you fellow students have the same problem.

Calum:
When i was at school (mid nineties) my high school was in the final stages of upgrading its network from a bunch of BBC BASICs (a machine running M$ BASIC, similar to the BBC ELECTRON) to an Appleshare network of Macs and Laserwriters. Both sets of machines could use the same network, but of course not all machines could run all the programs, et c. At the time they had maybe just over a hundred Macs of various models, a few SEs and some LEs and PPCs possibly, in 3 different labs, and in departments all round the school.
When i left for college, of course they had M$ windows 95 with M$ works et c. Slow and boring by comparison, and after our Computing Department had told us that Apple was the future of computing, i wondered a little at the general "spit and sellotape" system the college had in their labs (only 2 labs, despite having about twice the number of students than at my high school).
Well, my sister tells me that the high school still has a Mac based network. I reckon they may have up to a dozen PCs, and you can bet all of those PCs will run Windows, but they retain a healthy relationship with Mac in their teaching and their networking.
It makes me wonder what's wrong with the rest of the world!

Oni Link:
Yeah when I went to Primary school, Macs were definately dominate.
Where you are from, people must be more "free thinking" cause here in Australia people are very gulable and are easily influenced.
Its nice to hear that some parts of the world are still hanging on.

Calum:
it's much the same here as in Australia, i found actually that people in Australia were just a little bit more liberal in their thoughts about some things, (but definitely not in others! read: Howard's reelection, the boat people shambles, not wanting to offend you of course!)maybe it's just the people i hung out with when i was there...
BTW, which part of Australia are you from?

Gonusto:
The university that I attend just took a big step backwards.  When I took CSE 231 (the introductory programming course) last semester we did everything in a Unix lab.  But I guess this semester they switched everything over to a Window's lab and are using some Microsoft based program to write their code.  And they call this an institution for "higher learning"?


-Gonusto

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