[ale] MS Propaganda representative

[Jeff Rose]

	It is Georgia State and I'd be interested in a LUG.  I only know one
other linux user at GSU.  It's so disheartening to see such a lack of
interest among Computer Science students.  But then again there are a
lot of bad students at GSU.  I'd love to be added to the email group.  I
won't be able to make the meeting tonight.  I have a 4 year old daughter
to take care of.  She's not much into Linux yet, although she does like
Tux Racer.
	The class is 5:30 tomorrow room 215 General Classroom building.  I
emailed my professor to see if it's alright if others sit in.  He's very
excited about this and wants to make a good impression with MS.  The
university is probably suckin up for research dollars.  I'll let you
know what his reply is.

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 10:01, stephen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:20:47AM -0400, Jeff Rose wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 	Tomorrow a MS representative is scheduled to be a guest speaker in my
> > software engineering class at GSU.  He will be explaining the wonder
> 
> Is this, by any chance, Georgia State?  And if so, what time will
> the presentation begin?  If it doesn't conflict with my work
> schedule, I might like to sit in.
> 
> > that will be .Net.  I have obtained a copy of .Net (has and will not be
> > installed).  Reading the EULA is quite scary and makes me more than a
> > little angry.  It basically says any code written with it may not be
> > freely redistributed and must be copyrighted with as much protection as
> > Visual Studio .Net.  Kind of the antithesis of GPL. It also prohibits
> > the programmer from developing software that directly competes with MS
> > Access.  These are issues I want to ask this representative about.  Can
> > anyone suggest others.  
> > 	I don't want to just go in guns ablazing.  There are many students who
> > don't know much about Open Source/Linux and I'd like them to understand
> > what they're getting into when they sign a contract with MS.  Thanks
> 
> There are a few people at Ga. State showing some interest in starting
> a GSU LUG.  We are actually meeting this evening in room 160 of the
> Natural Science Center at 7pm.  If your interested, please stop by or
> let me know if you want to be included in the informal emails.
> 
> thanks,
> stephen



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