[Ubuntu-be] about me (voorstelling)

[Kevin Elaerts]

Richard Bennett schreef:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:49:10 +0200, Wesley S. <wesley at ubuntu-nl.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> We primarily work in Microsoft Visual Basic and
>> Microsoft Access, but I refuse to do that.
>>     
>
> I know what you mean, it becomes really irritating being forced to use MS  
> for some things.
>
> Yet that is life. Idealism is great, but pragmatism is king in this case.
>
> The open source movement is something that has been growing slowly over  
> the last few decades, and has now reached a critical mass so that it is  
> impossible to ignore from within companies and government, and slowly also  
> schools.
>
> When you come on the jobmarket having Linux /open-source expirience, amd  
> possibly having participated in opensource projects will be a big  
> advantage, but knowing MS software will be a basic requirement.
>
> If you want your school to improve their practices I think you have to  
> accept that they should offer a balanced curiculum, not either MS or Linux  
> or OSX.
>
> So instead of boycotting things you don't like, you will probably have a  
> more positive impact if you complete those assignements, and then repeat  
> the same assignement using Postgres, or Mysql or the Open Office database  
> tool or something.
> I know that is a lot more work, but at least it will open the eyes of your  
> teachers to the fact that there is something else out there too, and  
> instead of getting worse marks you are likely to get very good ones.
>
> I use Linux and open-source exlusively where I work, which is against all  
> company policies, but is allowed because they know the Linux users are the  
> more productive people. We are however expected to dop our own boontjes  
> and not expect any support.
> My first job many years ago was programming a sales application in... MS  
> Access.
> Knowing both worlds puts you in a much stronger position.
>
> Groeten,
>
> Richard
>
>
> PS Is er ergens ook een nederlandstalige ubuntu mailing list? ubuntu-nl  
> lijkt dood... mischien moet er een ubuntu-vl bijkomen?
>
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Yeah then you should place yourselves in my shoes, I have to work with 
MS Windows Server 2003, probably for the rest of my career, oww boy and 
to think that if I would put those excercises on a linux server I would 
have been done ages before my classmates.