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Re:GitHub goes to school by davexunit on Monday February 10, 2014 @04:45PM (#7214102)
I think all of that stuff is easily replaceable, in the context of a CS curriculum at the very least, if only other people cared a bit. I took one class that required use of a proprietary circuit modeling program that I ran via Wine, but other than that I did not have to use any proprietary software to complete my CS coursework.
Re:GitHub goes to school by sheetjs on Monday February 10, 2014 @04:55PM (#7214148)
The difficulty with replacing proprietary hardware is that, in some cases, the companies donate it. So you'll have a "dell lab" sponsored by Dell, and it's hard to convince a school to say no to the free equipment and go with another solution