Author: Vic Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] What would you do,
faced with the following advice re Ubuntu
> The course is clearly Microsoft biased.
Which course is this, anyway?
> They also said that we "needed" Shockwave!
Sounds like there will be some Flash-based video sessions going on. You
almost certainly *don't* need Adobe's player. But that won't stop the
ignorati from telling you that you do, of course...
> When protesting about Shockwave being "needed" for a course about Linux, I
> got through in the end to the manager of the course team. She said to
> let her know what I thought of the course, and believe me I shall!
Unfortunately, you're almost certainly wasting your time. If they've put
together a course with that many errors in the initial brief, it's
probably not being run by anyone with an interest in teaching things that
are actually correct :-(
