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Using Email at McGill university: Ongoing suffering of an open-source user, year 9
It’s 2020, and the world has changed. Well, yes, there’s that, but I meant that the world of email has changed. For reasons I won’t speculate and rant about here, the problem of spam has not been solved, and email … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alpine, Alpine, GNU/linux, McGill University, Microsoft, software, Uncategorized
Tagged alpine, email, GNU/linux, McGill, Microsoft monopoly, software
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iClicker under GNU/Linux
Electronic “clickers” are personal wireless transceivers carried by every student in a lecture hall and are used for in-class feedback and assessment in teaching. At McGill, we have just switched to a new clicker system that is all about integration with … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/linux, McGill University, Microsoft, software
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McGill University firmly embedded with Microsoft
This is the nearly incredible story of how one of Canada’s great universities has become such a buttress of the Microsoft monopoly that it cannot even provide for a new faculty member the normal ability to send and receive email. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, McGill University, Microsoft, software
Tagged McGill Unversity, Microsoft monopoly
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Tied selling of Windows O/S with computer hardware in Canada: a complaint to the Competition Bureau
To follow up on my recent victimization by the “Microsoft Tax”, I filed a complaint with the Canadian Competition Bureau, the federal agency charged with investigating anti-competitive behaviour. I think I understand their response, which I’m including below, but there … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/linux, Microsoft, software
Tagged anti-competitive, Canada, GNU/linux, Lenovo, Microsoft, monopoly, Windows refund
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The Microsoft tax and Windows refund in Canada: Lenovo
I am one of those (quietly) rabid Microsoft opponents. I believe Microsoft represents a collossal market failure, in that it has added very little in innovation towards making better software. Instead, its innovation has nearly entirely been in capturing and … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/linux, Microsoft, software
Tagged anti-competitive, Canada, Lenovo, Microsoft, monopolist, Windows refund
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