won't use microsoft at school

[Stryker]

Here's an email I just sent to the technology manager of my school. Any suggestions if they say no?

 

quote:
I'm not exactly sure if it is necessary to request your, or anyone's, permission but I thought I better just to be sure. I'm a student at (My High School), and am terribly against Microsoft. They are one of the few things in this world I full heartedly hate. I hate they way they lie to the public, the way they force updates on me, the way their products are ridden with bugs, their incredible insecurity, and the contridictions I hear from them. So I choose not to use them. I am running Slackware 8.1 on my laptop, and would like to be able to use it at school with the same networking permissions as my peers. I have a computer class and I don't need any special software they have, I just need the web browser and a word processor. I have this stuff with slackware. I am asking you if I can use my laptop, plug it into the network, and do my everyday tasks. Such as saving my files on my "H Drive (\\ma1srv\%username%$)", and use the proxy server to access the cisco site. I do not need any special instructions for accessing my saved files on the network, but as for the cisco site I would need the address of the proxy server and the port it is running on. (http, https, socks). I do not feel my education should be altered because of my feelings for a company. Thank You.

edit: My 400th post (finally)

[ January 29, 2003: Message edited by: Stryker ]

[raptor]

hopefully it will work.

[cahult]

It should be made an option at every school to choose whatever software/operating system you want.

[Calum]

well that'd be great in a perfect world, but in the meantime i think 100% of people on the planet should be able to drink clean water, have enough food and live in clean and spacious conditions.

On the other hand i can see no reason why you should not connect your computer to a network if they allow an individual's computer to connect running a microsoft operating system. it is well known that microsoft make the least secure operating systems and so therefore it is impossible for a non microsoft operating system to be any more of a security liability than the already acceptable limit.

[Pissed_Macman]

Good luck getting permission to use something other than Windows in the Seattle-Redmond area (or otherwise referred to as Microsoftland). Even in small towns like Enumclaw (no, I'm not a hick!) we are forced to use Windows for educational things, although we do have a legion of broken-down iMacs scattered around.

I tried sort of the same thing and basically got laughed at, but maybe Everett is better, so good luck.