[ILUG] It's illegal, according to the barrister in PC World

[Vincent Cunniffe]

Smelly Pooh wrote:
> In reply to Brendan Arthurs's flatulent wordings, 
> 
>>While we're criticising Trinity, let's not leave out UCD!
>>When I suggested to some second year CS classmates that they might try out
>>Linux, the average responses were along the lines of:
>>"Why would you do that?"
>>"Sure Windows is fine..."
>>"I'll leave that to yourself!"
>>So out of a class of 50, I know of two who use Linux and perhaps three
>>more who are interested in finding out about it.
>>All 50 are doing an Operating Systems course. Then again, the majority of
>>them would not be what I would consider technically clued in.
>>But what should we expect from an educational supermarket?
> 
> 
> Isn't it a little narrow minded and elitist to presume that just because
> somebody isn't interested in learning Linux that they're not technically
> clued in?  Especially since so many Linux advocates fall into that
> category

Well, judging from the above quotes, they're not so much not intereted in
linux per se as not interested in anything other than windows.

An 'operating systems' course which doesn't include *nix is unworthy of the
name, in my opinion.

Regards,

Vin