<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Dotan Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This will certainly be relevant to some recent posters on the list:<br>
<a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/1627242" target="_blank">http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/1627242</a></blockquote><div><br>I guess this was meant for me among others. A couple of comments: (a) I have no desire to change any university reliance or use of Windows. (b) As far as I can tell, Windows software costs nothing, or very little to universities - MS is happy to make such donations. (c) My personal rules for donations are:<br>
<br>(i) Donations? Make sure the donor is not giving you a present you will have to feed and clean after.<br>(ii) Unsolicited donations? Exercise great caution.<br>(iii) Unsolicited software donations? Exercise greater caution. See if the donor is willing to put money where their words are.<br>
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