Politeness (was: we want python software)

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 06 December 2017 15:33:40 Ian Kelly 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.

Thank you, but at first the only Earlham I could think of was Earlham, 
IA. Which isn't the home of a higher ed facility that I know of.

Sounds like an interesting place that google sent me to.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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