On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ryan Rix <phrkonale...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys, > > I am going to be a senior in high school next year so it is time for me to > start looking at which colleges I would be interested in attending. > Basically I am looking to take up a degree in CS, simple and easy. > > One of the factors I'd like to look into in regards to those colleges I > apply > at is how do they support Free Software in their CS curriculum. It's fairly > important to me that I am able to develop under a Free operating system in > the > CS courses that I choose to take, and am not forced to develop under > Windows. > > Does anyone have any experince with Free Software universities, or > any resources that have information on them? > > Ryan > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...] > These links: http://cnx.org/ http://cnxconsortium.org/ http://plone.org/ http://www.rice.edu/ might provide you with some idea about the commitment of rice.edu to -- not only to FLOSS, but also to open standards, non-proprietary file formats, etc., and "open curriculum" type stuff, -- and, that last list item is meant to refer to a situation whereby the learning materials, like the text books (or, e- "substitutes", thereof!) are, like, GPL'd or GFDL'd, or something like that. best wishes, wherever you go! -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwa...@acm.org
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