Politeness (was: we want python software)

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 December 2017 12:14:32 Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Then why not promote that seat of higher learning by naming it? Word of
> mouth publicity is the best kind.

Earlham College.