[ale] OT: Linux+ Course requires Silverlight

[paul0123 at comcast.net (Paul Storey)]

Which university is this?

Paul

On 12/16/2014 11:45 AM, K Thompson wrote:
> So, after talking to JD and getting convinced that it would be okay to 
> complain about this using this forum, I finally decided to speak up 
> about it.
>
> My university has a Linux+ course that I am in that requires 
> Silverlight to run so that a newb like me would not be able to run the 
> course outside of Windows. It is so frustrating that I cannot get a 
> true Linux user experience of immersion into the OS through this 
> course.  I was really looking forward to ditching Windows for a little 
> bit.  Ugh!  Just Ugh!  I know I could have probably done it using 
> something else, but then I'd still feel like that I was subject to 
> Microsoft in some way.
>
> Anyways...I apologize for my rant, but I just wanted to put this out 
> there and see if I was the only one that thought this was outrageous!
>
> -- 
> Kerry Thompson
> 478-718-4091
> kerthomp11 at gmail.com <mailto:kerthomp11 at gmail.com>
> kerry.d.thompson.mil at mail.mil <mailto:kerry.d.thompson.mil at mail.mil>
>
>
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