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Budget Cuts

I just learned that the State of Georgia has cut $68 million from the university system’s budget. Our president, Dr. David Bell, informed the faculty today via email that Macon State College will have to shoulder $680,000 of this burden slung upon us right in the middle of the fall semester. According to the Macon [...]

M$.I.T.

“Today, four years into the five-year partnership, the protests are over and Microsoft technology is firmly entrenched at MIT.” This has to be one of the most thoroughly nauseating and depressing articles I have read in a while. At least everyone at MIT isn’t fooled, but that doesn’t seem to make much of a difference. [...]

More M$

Leave it to M$ to charge for services that they never provide. See Ed Foster’s “Your Loss, Their Gain” on InfoWorld. He states that “Acceleration clauses and other convoluted language in the 6.0 contracts regarding Microsoft’s license transfer policies can obligate divesting customers to pay early for services they — and the acquiring company — [...]