[Ilugc] Re: Another storm
- From: lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chandrashekar Babu)
- Date: Thu Nov 25 21:44:48 2004
Sriram Krishnan writes:
I wonder why nobody protests when Apple ties up
with US schools but people come up with a conspiracy idea whenever Microsoft
does anything.
It really doesn't matter who does it, whether Apple/Microsoft/Oracle/Sun. If
they are trying to penetrate schools and colleges, they are building a
strategy to lock users down to their products and services - thus killing
freedom of choice for future companies when it comes to recruiting skilled
people, and also blinding humble students from understanding their own
freedom of choice when it comes to deciding their software career.
Do you really think Coke would go around encouraging school students to go
drink Pepsi?
In my opinion, both Coke/Pepsi must stay far off from school and college
campuses. Promoting a _commercial_ product and/or building a long term
business strategy on educational sectors is plain bad! Any company with
decent etiquettes would never do it.
As an example, when you were at school, I presume that you were never
forced by your school authorities to use "Cherry" polish to shine your
shoes, nor were you forced to use "Bombay Dying" as your fabric, nor were
you compelled to use "Camlin" or "Hero" or "Parker" pens to write.
When you were given freedom of choice in the earlier aspects, I believe the
same holds true when it comes to the current generation students in
choosing the tools and software of their choice to get their job
done. By the act of commercial companies penetrating into educational
segments, this harmony is broken.
Cheers,
Chandrashekar Babu.
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