Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Mar 2006 13:33 UTC, submitted by alcibiades
"I'm an art professor, and last semester I embarked on an exciting new adventure by erasing Mac OS X from nearly all of the Macintoshes in our digital media lab and installing Ubuntu in its place. I began seriously planning this change last school year, when I realized how fully the current feature sets of free software programs could satisfy the technical needs of the students in my classes. I decided that the time had come to teach our undergraduate art students about free software programs such as the GIMP, Scribus, and Quanta Plus, instead of proprietary programs such as Photoshop, QuarkXpress, and Dreamweaver."
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Member since:2006-01-21
No. At least that wasn't my motivation, when I started to study physics after I left an engineering school. Some of my former school mates earn more money than my professors , I'm generally not aware of some billionares in my profession (beside the ones, that write very successful books like a certain - no doubt ingenious - physicist in a wheelchair).
For some, it's about passion.
For some, it's about the joy of learning.
And it's about earning enough money to sustain the former two things.
At least for me it's this way, and I know a lot of similar thinking people (not only in academic circles btw.), so please don't make that general statements like that, thanks in advance
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2005-07-06
And why do people educate themselves? I would safely assume it's so that they can make better money than their friend at the local burger joint.