Re: AM-INFO digest 593

[Allan Bazar <abazar@azstarnet.com>]

When I was a boy in college (40 + years ago) the tobacco
companies would hire students to pass out cigarettes; insurance
companies maintained liaison with university administrators who
promoted their wares; textbook publishers maintained a number of
contacts not to dissimilar to M$'s.

The argument could be made that M$ is a monopoly......... etc.
etc.  which may be relevant but the practice  is, as the
participants in this list have shown time and time again, as is
typical for M$, neither novel nor original.

Mark Hinds wrote:

> I have included a page below which seems to be yet another
> instance of MS invading the universities with their
> technology hype. I've have never seen this kind of blatant
> educational interference from any other Corp than MS. Am I
> just cracked for think this is so bad? Brett, I know you think
> I don't have a living brain :-), but surely you find this
> objectionable.
>
> A question for Simon the MS employee:
> Do you personally find this acceptable?
> How do you explain this degree of intrusion into higher
> education?
> Does my objection to it qualify me as and unreasonable
> religious zealot?
>
>
> Program Manager - Research - Redmond, WA
>
> http://www.axxa.com/position/93793.asp
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