Re: AM-INFO digest 593

[Wandered Inn <esoteric@denali.atlnet.com>]

Allan Bazar wrote:
> 
> When I was a boy in college (40 + years ago) the tobacco
> companies would hire students to pass out cigarettes;

Not valid, you're being hired by the company to do a job, not the same
comparison.

> insurance
> companies maintained liaison with university administrators who
> promoted their wares; textbook publishers maintained a number of
> contacts not to dissimilar to M$'s.

Maintaining contacts is not the same as flooding an educational facility
with free software, with the expectation that the educational facility
will begin to slant their 'wares' in favor of the providing company.

> 
> 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.

Again, apples to oranges comparisons...

> 
> 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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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@denali.atlnet.com

You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98????