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Isn't it ironic that in the biggest booming economy in recent history, universities, formerly places of divergent ideas and competitive philosophies, are too fiscally poor not to turn down these Intel and Microsoft "research" grants?

Without multiple platforms in campus computer rooms and book stores, students will accept what they are given, perhaps become complacent, and when they enter the "real" world will not know any better to complain about the bloated software and guinea pig beta-testing that Microsoft, despite having all the keys (specs) to the operating system and Intel hardware, gives us.

Microsoft has become too big and too far reaching to run its business unregulated. Universities should be at the forefront of making sure that a wide range of computing tools are available to students, the leaders, scientists, and artists of tomorrow.

-- Paul Takeuchi, artist (posted 4/21, 5:51 p.m., E.D.T.)
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