[Cialug] Linux in Universities

[Kenneth Younger]

I have wondered if this is true for some time. Lately my thinking has been
the opposite. I feel if we don't produce enough highly educated folks here
in the US, that other countries will do so. A lot of those countries do not
have the same standard of living we do, and therefore don't demand as high
of salaries. Aggregately, this would actually pull down the rates we might
be able to demand. I would rather see the US producing a TON of extremely
well-educated CS students. If anything, it'll keep me from getting lazy.

Or, if I do get lazy, maybe one of them will eventually employ me here in
the US :)

This is why I do support the Immigrant Visa bill that has been proposed
recently. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/02/the-startup-visa-update.html

-Kenny

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I attended a "Transfer Visit Day" at ISU today.  Basically they just
> gave us a campus tour, did some rah-rah ISU talk, showed us housing,
> fed us lunch.
>
> For about an hour the three prospective CS majors (out of the 200
> attending!) visited with two CS department advisers and asked
> questions.  One of the women mentioned that they give career-oriented
> seminars to seniors.  Representatives from some companies will come in
> and talk about whatever topic.  She said that lately some of the reps
> have been telling the CS department that they want to see more
> graduates with Linux experience.  I asked her who and she said
> Cargill, Sun, and one of the Thomson companies.  (Thomson Reuters I
> think.)  The adviser said they teach plenty of Unix, but these reps
> were saying they wanted Linux, specifically.
>
> This is good news!
>
> I also learned that the number of students going into CS is dropping
> nationwide.  == more money for the rest of us.
>
> --
> Todd
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