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Re: General advice beyond Org


From: tomas
Subject: Re: General advice beyond Org
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 17:31:57 +0200
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On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 08:50:32AM -0500, Kevin Buchs wrote:
> As a student, you simply need to go along with your supervisor's
> recommendations. You are not in a position to dictate the terms.

Nobody talks about dictating anything. Some supervisors are more
enlightened than other, so trying to talk to them doesn't seem
wrong.

>                                                            Using the
> proprietary tools will not hurt you, unless you need to buy your own.

With that I disagree strongly: free is not primarily about price
(more so in the OP's case, as he stated clearly). Reducing "free"
to price totally misses the point, IMO.

[...]

> So, you need to adjust your attitude. It may be that you are presenting the
> issue of principles - I prefer free, you prefer proprietary, but that is
> not really the true issue. Maybe you don't know the proprietary tools and
> don't want to learn them or feel you can't learn them. Choice of tools you
> use is no reason to switch graduate programs.

This whole paragraph comes across as somewhat... condescending.

> This is entirely a matter of getting along with other people, not being
> selfish, etc. These are life skills we are talking about.

Definitely. And part of this getting along is trying to negotiate
what matters to oneself and to others. I do agree that an intransigent
attitude isn't helpful, but Edgar didn't show something like that.

Fostering free software is exactly about "not being selfish".

Cheers
- -- tomás
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