[Techtalk] Linux in Higher Learning

[the unseen]

Do you know what worries me most?  People in IS majors around the 
country are only learning the Microsoft way.  Many of these students 
are only in the major because that's where the money is (part of 
the reason why I left the major, the other being I can't really teach 
with a computer science degree in Ohio without a degree in something 
else first so I am math now but I digress) .  So many disillusioned 
students think that the only os out there is anything with MS in 
front of it and the brain - numbed professors let this happen.  In 
computer science departments where the focus is more technical or 
liberal-arts, this happens less than where the focus is on business.
Ask a computer science student at Carnegie-Mellon, Stanford or 
Cal Tech if they have heard of Linux, they will definitely know what 
it is and odds are, they probably do use it, if they haven't.  But,
go to a place like a community colleg (or my school, Cleveland State 
University), they will say "Linux...isn't that the guy with the blanket 
from the Charlie Brown cartoons?".  The point is the IT "professionals" 
that are coming out of college today have been brainwashed by their 
professors and the current media trends.  How can this be combatted? 
How can we correct this? 

Derek Arnold


the unseen
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"this ain't no time where the usual is suitable"
					-Mos Def