From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,877ba3d67e73c6c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-15 18:41:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsfeed0.news.atl.earthlink.net!news.atl.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Richard Riehle Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:41:43 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3CBB8157.DBA7AC51@adaworks.com> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <5ee5b646.0204121930.64733eeb@posting.google.com> <5wTt8.15598$C21.3515342@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <5ee5b646.0204130620.114953ae@posting.google.com> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 41.b2.60.ed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 16 Apr 2002 01:40:10 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22575 misc.misc:6356 Date: 2002-04-16T01:40:10+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > Hint: anything to do with Microsoft does NOT appeal to students these > days, who routinely refer to Microsoft as the "dark side", a > phenomenon that I think MS should be > paying far more attention too :-) I can confirm this. More and more of my students puchase laptops and immediately install Linux. They refuse to use the computers in the official lab because they all run Microsoft products. Microsoft, for these students, is characterized by is monopolistic path into the blue screen of death. Linux, right or wrong, represents freedom from unjust restraint. Richard Riehle