On August 16, 2002 10:23 am, Bill Traynor wrote: > Given the recent shakey contribution by MS of 2.3 million to the University > of Waterloo, I'm wondering if this sort of thing is really a precedent or > whether it's happenned before? Is anyone aware of other contribution > schemes that have resulted in a curriculum change like this in Canada? > > UW story is here http://uwstudent.org/msstory.html > Fed od Students response > http://www.feds.ca/government/documents/Feds%20Press%20Release%20-%20Micros >o ft.pdf
Not sure about Canada. but it is a "very" common occurance in the US public school system, and the US University system. The breath and degree of influence of this initiative can be discovered at various levels of information through a search on google for MS+educations+systems. Im sure this would be very productive search. Further wrt to the Canadian scene, our LUG was involved/was in contact with various federal agencies dealing with computer education, systems etc for the pubic school systems, While several members remain active we were also told unofficially last year or a year ago, not sure, that this was a MS bastion and not to expect success in the arena with linux solutions. As with all things times change. There is now a federal initiative to "review" open source based software technologies. Chris H --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
