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Re: General advice beyond Org
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tomas |
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Re: General advice beyond Org |
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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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- Re: [O] General advice beyond Org, (continued)
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Re: General advice beyond Org, Samuel Wales, 2018/05/19
Re: General advice beyond Org, edgar, 2018/05/18