Politeness (was: we want python software)

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 December 2017 11:28:22 Random832 wrote:
>> The third possibility is that he believes that this list is official
>> in some corporate sense, that if he asks for the software and it is
>> not free he will receive a price quote.
>
> Sadly, that an attitude even college profs don't get, having gotten their
> sheepskin with only M$ stuff, that something could be both free and
> good.
>
> It's a concept that makes no sense to the teachers, so of course they
> don't teach it either.  Hell of a way to run a train.

Depends where you went to school, probably. The CS department at my
college was all over using Linux and free software.