Richard Bennett schreef: > On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:49:10 +0200, Wesley S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> We primarily work in Microsoft Visual Basic and >> Microsoft Access, but I refuse to do that. >> > > I know what you mean, it becomes really irritating being forced to use MS > for some things. > > Yet that is life. Idealism is great, but pragmatism is king in this case. > > The open source movement is something that has been growing slowly over > the last few decades, and has now reached a critical mass so that it is > impossible to ignore from within companies and government, and slowly also > schools. > > When you come on the jobmarket having Linux /open-source expirience, amd > possibly having participated in opensource projects will be a big > advantage, but knowing MS software will be a basic requirement. > > If you want your school to improve their practices I think you have to > accept that they should offer a balanced curiculum, not either MS or Linux > or OSX. > > So instead of boycotting things you don't like, you will probably have a > more positive impact if you complete those assignements, and then repeat > the same assignement using Postgres, or Mysql or the Open Office database > tool or something. > I know that is a lot more work, but at least it will open the eyes of your > teachers to the fact that there is something else out there too, and > instead of getting worse marks you are likely to get very good ones. > > I use Linux and open-source exlusively where I work, which is against all > company policies, but is allowed because they know the Linux users are the > more productive people. We are however expected to dop our own boontjes > and not expect any support. > My first job many years ago was programming a sales application in... MS > Access. > Knowing both worlds puts you in a much stronger position. > > Groeten, > > Richard > > > PS Is er ergens ook een nederlandstalige ubuntu mailing list? ubuntu-nl > lijkt dood... mischien moet er een ubuntu-vl bijkomen? > > > > Yeah then you should place yourselves in my shoes, I have to work with MS Windows Server 2003, probably for the rest of my career, oww boy and to think that if I would put those excercises on a linux server I would have been done ages before my classmates.
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