<div dir="ltr">I had a similar experience.<br>I recently switched to a different college in a renewed attempt to gain my undergraduate in Compsci. Much to my chagrin I discovered that this college, which bills itself as being a technological college, is firmly entrenched in the Microsoft field. I tried talking to each and every professor and TA in turn, about why it is so difficult for them to click the Save As PDF button in MS Word so that people like me would be able to read the homework, not to mention the class material.<br>
And don't ask about the arguments I had about forcing people to use Visual Studio and the Microsoft compilers instead of the gcc.<br>Much frustration.<br>The thing is, they keep coming back to the same old "this is what everybody uses" argument. And when I point out that clearly this isn't so, since I don't use MS, apparently it is my own fault for being a non-conformist.<br>
And so, in order to be able to complete my courses I am forced to either shell out for proprietary software or come up with creative solutions. One such solution was to remotely connect to the college's servers and use the software available there on the Windows 2003 server. Which works best for converting documents to PDF, but not so good with programming. Apparently programs that compile in VS 2008 don't necessarily compile in VS 2010. Who'd have thought?<br>
<br>I don't want dissuade you you, and wish you the best of luck, but I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you. This harps back to a similar, recent thread about Israeli websites being designed for IE6, the people in charge are behind the times, and firmly convinced that the rest of us are at fault for it.<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2012/2/5 Boaz Rymland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:boaz.rymland@gmail.com">boaz.rymland@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><span>Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I'm about to meet my daughter's school principal on the subject of the formats of documents the school spreads around routinely, like the weekly schedule. In short - they are using .DOC MS Word format and I don't like it as I cannot cleanly open those documents on my computer (which runs Ubuntu).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Although I'm quite old in the Linux world and probably heard over the years most of them - still I prefer having a refreshment of all the arguments in favor of moving to more open or at least affordable (e.g. PDF) document formats.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any pointers/text will be appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Boaz.</div></span></div>
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