Politeness (was: we want python software)

[Andrew Z]

Looks like the longest thread for past 2 months.
Should we push it to be the longest for 2017?

:)


On Dec 6, 2017 15:34, "Ian Kelly" <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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