Unfortunate Ubuntu media coverage

[JoeHill]

John McGregor wrote: 

> E K wrote:
> >
> > 
> > I bet she would have similar problems with windows as well. The main
> > difference will be that will not be reported at all. I see many people who
> > can "live" with any problem as long as it is Windows while they can't stand
> > Linux for the slightest problem. It is all a matter of perception.
> > 
> > On the other hand, I had taken a Systems Analysis and Design course at
> > Ryerson and sadly the instructor was not even interested to hear about
> > linux or open source software. The option she gave the students was to use
> > either Word 2000 or Word 97 document (not even PDF was acceptable for her)
> > for submission and Visio or Rational Rose for UML modeling. She was gave me
> > a bit of a warning that I am on my own if Umbrello's models (symbols and
> > diagraming) are not 100% compatible to Visio's when I told her I will be
> > using Umbrelo for UML modeling. She, being a university professor teaching
> > systems analysis and design, should have been the last person to discourage
> > students from exploring alternative software. 
> 
> That's not the professors's doing. Ryerson uses an anti-plagiarism 
> service that is strictly Windows centric. Any written work must be also 
> be submitted to the service and it will only accept work that originated 
> from a Windows box or a Mac. If this service hasn't recorded your 
> effort, the professor is prohibited from marking it even if it was 
> submitted to him / her on time. When I was there I wrote my stuff in 
> Open Office, saved it in .doc on a usb stick and then used one of the 
> school's computers to submit it to the service.  It was a pain in the ass.

Now _that_ would make an interesting news story.

-- 
J
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists