[aclug-L] Fwd: your views

[Kirk Lancaster <lancaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had to send a response.  The original article was probably a troll=20
(although WSU UCATS is no better) and they should not be fed - sorry.

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Subject: your views
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:00:35 -0600
From: Kirk Lancaster <lancaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: howard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dear Howard:
I hope you do not mind if I introduce myself.  I am a professor of
mathematics at Wichita State University (http://156.26.12.23).  I am
currently the chair of the short course subcommittee of the American
Mathematical Society (so I contribute service to the discipline) and serv=
ed
as the President of the Faculty Senate at Wichita State last year.  I kne=
w a
(deceased) Princeton math professor, Fred Almgrem, and several of my frie=
nds
received their PhDs under his supervision.

I read your article about open source software in the online version of
Syllabus magazine.  Frankly, I am shocked that a person associated with
Princeton University holds such ignorant and biased views.  When Apache i=
s
the most often used web server and IBM, HP, etc. are migrating many of th=
eir
systems to Linux, your criticism of open source software would seem, at b=
est,
to reflect your ignorance.

Sincerely,
Kirk Lancaster
lancaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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