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Story: FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 20 February 2006, 10:48 AM)
Why wait for MS products to be banned? If you're competent with computers and head up a group (even if a small one) just go ahead and make the change. Demand from your suppliers they provide products that will work under Linux or a variant of BSD (even OSX is acceptable) or even Solaris. When people send you MS.doc files, write back to say please re-send in PDF because you cannot read MS.doc (you will make good friends at Adobe). If you supervise students, make them learn to use TeX/LaTeX (your document and the maths will be beautiful!) and rather than use MSExcel for making plots (I swear it produces the ugliest graphs I have ever seen) let your students learn to pay attention to their plots and use any number of free plotting tools. GNUPlot is one of my favorite (although it takes me ~15min to make a plot!) but recently I have been using 'KST' which works with KDE and it is very good for most types of 2D plots. At the moment I am designing new instruments and if a manufacturer cannot provide a component that runs on Linux, and is not willing to cooperate, I just go on to the next supplier.
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Story: FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
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"Microsoft ... behaving as if it considers itself... Roger Morgan -
Well, Microsoft positioned itself above the law. T... Anonymous
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Ahh..microsoft thinks it is above everything and e... bake
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Concerning Linux, Linux is very easy to use.... Lars -
EU / EC grants require basic standards of ethics a... Olavi Petri
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Why wait for MS products to be banned? If yo... Anonymous -
Re: 'Anonymous, scientist'.
I've heard o... Anonymous -
Yes previous poster.
And the people... Matt Webber
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Nothing new. After the trial... Sum Yung Gai (anonymous, to save my job)
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The position adopted by Microsoft all through is n... Praveen P.P.
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The European Commission and its public "servants"... Chris Goodman
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Windows in it's progression of forms has been comm... Chris Goodman
