Re: [seul-edu] Site@School V2.1 betatesters needed

["Robert G. Rittenhouse" <rob@cs1.mcm.edu>]

Harry McGregor wrote:

> Ok, I wanted to stay out of this, but I can't.
>
> On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 05:35, Hans Paijmans wrote:
>  
> > Why fight the monopoly of Microsoft if we surrender without comment
> > to the American monopoly on education and culture?
> >    
> Who says that America has a monopoly on education and culture? 
> Personally, and this comes from living in the US most of my life, I feel
> quit the opposite.
>  
Hear, hear. Frankly, except for some universities the U.S. education 
system is third rate. As for culture -- I thought the Japanese were 
taking over? :)

One of the more interesting things about working with Open Source SW is 
the multinational aspect. Here I am running software from Finland, 
Sweden, Germany, Russia and probably a few other places. I try to point 
this out to my students from time to time (U.S. students tend not to 
think much about the rest of the world).

BTW: those of us not born in the U.S. (I'm Canadian) do dislike being 
lumped in with the U.S. through the use of the  term "American". :)
--
Rob R.