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The current marketing efforts of Microsoft are designed to help to company maintain its monopoly. The issue is one that involves not only anti-trust enforcement (or lack, thereof), but also academic freedom, intellectual creativity, and adequate student preparation.

While the immediate gain to institutions might be new hardware and software, the long-term view is one of constricted learning opportunities for students and hampered freedom and creativity for instructors and other campus users.

-- Dr. Goldson Oliver Brown, Dean of Student Services Southeast Community College (posted 4/20, 1:55 p.m., E.D.T.)
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