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 The biggest threat to higher education is the way Microsoft products and lack of standards in engineer. They have a hacker culture that has degraded the whole industry. I and many other bright and promising engineers could only be hired as temps or contractors, then put up with intimidation and threats on the job. This is a cultural issue that could only be changed with total changes in upper level management. It's so bad, that if engineers try to bring up design problems or bugs, they can be harassed right out of their jobs but low tech and aggressive hacker, many with no college education at all -- including Mr. Gates... This is the basis for this culture. It was OK for him to cheat, steal code and undercut others with false deals. The lack of morals and ethics should be a concern to everyone. They also attempt to get college students into intern position to prevent them from getting a full college degree so they can pay them less. They are more likely to hire and promote people who went through one of their 5 day/$7,000 training program in their technology than educated people with a more diverse and complex education. It took me almost 5 years of math, physics, programming, theory, and humanities to get a BS degree. I've worked 4 months in the past 7 years because of an injury I received working as a contractor for them that was no accident. This is just the way it is. They hired 19,000 people since this incident, but now that I'm handicapped, I'm trash... They do this to a lot of people in their own company. Competition is one thing, but what Microsoft supports and encourages is discrimination and harassment against anyone who "Says something bad about their company. This mean reporting bugs or design problems... As a result, the Win NT OS has over 104 hackable holes and a data base with over 3,000 bug patches. This isn't engineering, it's hacker software. Support it at your own risk. Many of us see the need to turn computer engineering into a licensed degree and feel that higher eduation should support that. It's amazing how one trained engineer can solve problems that 10 hackers can never figure out.
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