[ale] [OT] Interesting Take on MS Programming Tools

[Irv Mullins]

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 12:59 pm, you wrote:

> What really annoyed me was this professor (at Macon State College, BTW)
> so happily preaching the M$ gospel.  This is not an isolated incident at
> MSC.  For most of the courses taught, they have a 100% M$ push.  In one
> class, the professor asked about a hypothetical network deployment.  The
> "correct" answer was "deploy x M$ servers", regardless of technical
> merit.  Thus, I got many of his projects "wrong" by suggesting Linux,
> until I figured out his bent and did what he wanted.

Simple. I would have answered, 
"If I wanted to set up a functional network,I would use Linux.
However, my goal is to pass this test, not get something working, so for that 
I would choose M$ servers with......"

Irv


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