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Microsoft's C# (Sharp) & .NET -- A Heads Up

Robin Becker robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk
Thu Jul 27 12:15:38 EDT 2000 
In article <xPWf5.13765$4p3.106670 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>, Neil
Hodgson <neilh at scintilla.org> writes
>> The fact that there are dyed in the wool M$ hating academics is surely a
>> reflection of M$'s past behaviour. The fact that M$ can apparently turn
>> these guys around so easily says a lot about what M$ is really good at
>> (selling and hype) and also about what the academics are poor at (real
>> world judgement).
>
>   You are overlooking the appeal of a decent sized research grant to your
>average starving academic ;)
>
>   Neil
...
Luckily when I was an academic I wasn't the one tasked with getting the
next grant application together :) I do remember that it took one of the
more astute members of the research group around 25-30% of their time to
get something useful together. Not to mention the 5-10% of everyone's
time spent in arguing and attending committee meetings etc.

If M$ doesn't cost the academics that sort of effort before giving money
I would strongly advise them to get a good Greek horse dentist.
-My M$ muMath is no longer supported-ly yrs- 
Robin Becker
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