[ale] Linspire chairman thinks desktop Linux is futile

[Jeff Lightner]

You could even sic some news organizations (e.g. Linux Mag) to ask
leading questions journalists love so much such as:

"Given the fact that MS AD costs so much why aren't you leveraging your
CS students and staff to eliminate its use completely?"

Or "Do you still beat your admins?"  :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Robert Reese~
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:12 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Linspire chairman thinks desktop Linux is futile

> Currently that is just not possible without throwing out
> all of Windows Active Directory and its attendant services which is
> not politically or practically feasible.

Hi Keith,

I'm wondering of the Board of Regents would be inclined, via pressure
from potential and current students, their families, and the state
government, to refrain from spending critical money on MS products; the
cost of tuition, books, and so forth, are keen on the minds of those
that pay for attending GT.

Furthermore, GT has one of the best CS/CC campuses in the world with
highly impressive and trained wetware to attack the problem.  Why not
make a priority project for graduate and undergraduate students to
create an open-source alternative to the Active Directory?  This surely
would be a positive ROI instead of blowing it on MSAD.

Right now would be a prime time to do so, especially since the news
organizations are gearing up for their "holy carp, college costs *how*
much?!" news pieces, and the BoR and administration probably have
already been receiving calls for interviews and questionnaires from said
news agencies.  ;c)

Cheers,
Robert Reese~

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