[brlug-poly] M$ Tax for all LSU Students.

[Andrew Baudouin]

More FUD!

On 10/24/05, Will Hill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> If you thought you could avoid the Microsoft tax by building your own
> computer
> while studying at LSU, guess again! In an ugly parallel to the RIAA's
> effort
> to suck more money from Universities, Microsoft has made a deal with LSU.
> A
> spam broadcast to all students let them know just how lucky the were to
> now
> be taxed by Microsoft through their student technology fee. Stuff like
> this
> only delays the inevitable adoption of free software and I resent paying
> for
> it. Details of the dirty deed is glorified in the spam and at this site:


LSU has been under the CLA for several years now. The STF has not changed in
amount since they have elected to use part of it to get software from
Microsoft.

The Student Technology Fee Oversight committee voted to use funds to do
this. It was a democratically supported decision.

http://www.lsu.edu/microsoftFAQ
>
> Salient details are quoted:
>
> "Student licensing was funded through a commitment from the Student
> Technology
> Fee made by the STF Oversight Committee."
>
> Ugh! my dollars at work. I'm committed, this sound serious.


See above.

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Not all of it is up yet, but the "distro_name.lsu.edu" sites are very cool
> sounding. I imagine it will cost them much less to mirror that software
> than
> M$'s dump price and think that small portion of their budget is well
> spent.
> I look forward to speedy Mepis iso downloads and a full debian mirror.


You are so far behind the times.

debian.math.lsu.edu <http://debian.math.lsu.edu> has been running for years
and years now. fedora.lsu.edu <http://fedora.lsu.edu> has been serving
redhat ISOS since 5.2. There are gentoo, mandrake, and suse mirrors as well.

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