在學校裡捍衛自由軟體的正確視聽

當你的老闆或同儕在學校裡，散佈這種由搞不清狀況的名校學者發表，偏頗不利於自由軟體的文
章時，你是站在第一線推廣自由軟體的老師，該怎麼辦？

人家玩耍賴的，我們當然也可以用人身credit來質疑，比如說: M$ 捐了不少錢給
哈佛，MIT 在OCPL就用linux走不同的路。其次作者不是在電腦界的，卻用過去的經濟理論
來預測完全新的領域(照這樣，Apple 僱用被開除的Steve Job回鍋當CEO，現在不該倒
閉了？),.....但我覺得這樣在學校裡跟人家比爛，那不好。

下面是我的答案，比較學院風格:

Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:54:50 -0500 (CDT)
to: 相關同儕(這不好公開)

> Windows will beat Linux threat, say academics
> http://smallbusiness.itworld.com/4378/060912windowslinux/pfindex.html

I do not trust a paper mentioning this by the authors themselves:

"The researchers admit that the formal economic model they've constructed
is highly simplified, and may not reflect important factors that exist in
the real world"


I am not interested in invloving the flame war between Linux VS windows.
I just want to share with you four different view points:


One from MIT
http://laptop.org/

One from French
http://quoi9.net/english/2006/09/25/free-computer-with-every-broadband-subscription/

On from India
http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=138497

Actually, right here in Texas, Sam Houston State U. is replacing their Cisco VoIP for
open-source Asterisk on linux server
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2006/091206-von-sam-houston.html