More FUD!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Will Hill</b> <<a href="mailto:williamhill2@cox.net">williamhill2@cox.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you thought you could avoid the Microsoft tax by building your own computer<br>while studying at LSU, guess again! In an ugly parallel to the RIAA's effort<br>to suck more money from Universities, Microsoft has made a deal with LSU. A
<br>spam broadcast to all students let them know just how lucky the were to now<br>be taxed by Microsoft through their student technology fee. Stuff like this<br>only delays the inevitable adoption of free software and I resent paying for
<br>it. Details of the dirty deed is glorified in the spam and at this site:</blockquote><div><br>
LSU has been under the CLA for several years now. The STF
has not changed in amount since they have elected to use part of it to
get software from Microsoft.<br>
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The Student Technology Fee Oversight committee voted to use funds to do this. It was a democratically supported decision.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://www.lsu.edu/microsoftFAQ">http://www.lsu.edu/microsoftFAQ</a><br>
<br>Salient details are quoted:<br><br>"Student licensing was funded through a commitment from the Student Technology<br>Fee made by the STF Oversight Committee."<br><br>Ugh! my dollars at work. I'm committed, this sound serious.
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See above. <br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Not all of it is up yet, but the "distro_name.lsu.edu" sites are very cool<br>sounding. I imagine it will cost them much less to mirror that software than
<br>M$'s dump price and think that small portion of their budget is well spent.<br>I look forward to speedy Mepis iso downloads and a full debian mirror.</blockquote><div><br>
You are so far behind the times.<br>
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<a href="http://debian.math.lsu.edu">debian.math.lsu.edu</a> has been running for years and years now.
<a href="http://fedora.lsu.edu">fedora.lsu.edu</a> has been serving redhat ISOS since 5.2. There are
gentoo, mandrake, and suse mirrors as well.<br>
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