Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:20:28 -0700 From: Paul Rickard To: pres@indiana.edu, bills@indiana.edu, jclapacs@indiana.edu, alowry@indiana.edu, iupress@indiana.edu Subject: The Indiana University - Microsoft Agreement We, the undersigned, have placed our names on this message to protest the software agreement between Microsoft Corp. and Indiana University. We feel that this agreement limits software choice for students going to Indiana University, will hurt the quality of education provided by the school and will, in turn, do damage to the computer industry as a whole. We demand that this deal be rescinded and that you make the actual agreement available for the public to read. Then, instead of school administrators concerned more with money than education making this decision for them, let the students of Indiana University choose for themselves what software they wish to use. Thank you. Sincerely, Paul Rickard msbc@abctec.com, Justin Yeoman justiny1@fastlane.net, Michael Pepper Jtaylor@a-omega.net, Aaron Eppert aeppert@indiana.edu, Jan Nygaard Nielsen jnygaard@post4.tele.dk, Daniel N. Strychalski dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw, Mark Hinds zoro@nwnexus.com, Claire Stokes stokes@tiny.net, Joseph E. Lerch III 8823lerc@vm.hacc.edu, A. van Werven avwerven@cs.leidenuniv.nl, Ben Drasin drasin@mindspring.com, Bradley Reno idesomarch@earthlink.net, Tim Yunaev tim@lviv.gu.net, Timothy Lottes tlottes@students.uiuc.edu, Michael Kingsnorth kingsno@ibm.net, Marvin Heilesen snake69@iname.com, Heather Wimberly Beech tobeth@lava.net, Steven N. Harp snh2@psu.edu, Brent Ely thales8@airmail.net, Joshua Ecklund pc_dos@exis.net, Peter Avery pavery@netquarters.net, Nicholas Donovan CEO- Integrated Technologies ndonovan@itccorp.com, Joey D'Anna joeydanna@hotmail.com, dean lamper dean.lamper@kiss.uni-lj.si, Christine Fisk cfisk@indiana.edu, Greg Turner turnerg@mortimer.net, Horst Butter hbut@bebit.bub.de, Chris Eaton tridus@inforamp.net, Steve Wendt stevew@hartnell.cc.ca.us, Stan Joyce sjoyce@primenet.com, Geoffrey Myers esoteric@atlnet.com, Steve Cohen stevecoh@mcs.com, Norman Moore normanmo@clark.net, Chad Alberts abslogic@netonecom.net, Mike Petersen mikep@ucla.edu, Daniel Drasin drasin@appliedreasoning.com, Nick McKinney hackman@fsdevel.com, Marco Krueger mkrueger@chemie.uni-hamburg.de, Jim Schwartz jrs@adsnet.com, Randy Kaphing rkaphing@mr.net, Milan Zimmermann mzimmerm@worldchat.com, Joshua Moore AllHallows@webtv.net, Evilio Jose del Rio Silvan edelrio@icm.csic.es, Albert Fluegel af@muc.de, Jim jim@electricv.com, Emmanuel FARHI manuf@ldv.univ-montp2.fr, John Driver 73064.1064@compuserve.com, CARON Dominique domi@lpm.univ-montp2.fr, Martin Houston mhouston@mh01.demon.co.uk, Anthony Di Pietro lemonpie@tower.net.au, Matthew Benjamin mbenjamin@comshare.com, Brian Wheeler bdwheele@indiana.edu, J. Villaci jvillaci@indiana.edu, Glenn T. Livezey Ph.D. glivezey@netserv.unmc.edu, Gerhard P. Hirsch info@gerhard-hirsch.com, Ger Apeldoorn ger@multiweb.nl, Michiel Toneman toneman@phil.ruu.nl, Chris Shelton cshelton@indiana.edu, Bob Boyken rboyken@bloomington.in.us, Jeff Wasel jeffwas@ix.netcom.com, Katie Haviland katieh@enol.com, Mendel Leo Cooper thegrendel@theriver.com, Al Elias al.elias@onyxnet.co.uk, Henry K. Miyamoto henry.miyamoto@utoronto.ca, Espen Andreassen esandr@online.no, Evan DiBiase hyprsoft@sgi.net, Scott Likens damm@hackndos.com, Adam White awhite@stpeters.sa.edu.au, Michael Regoli regoli@indiana.edu, Layssac layssac@lpm.univ-montp2.fr, Le Thoi tutorial@webcom.com, Luc C. Tran tranl@gaia.ecs.csus.edu, Joshua Walgenbach jwalgenb@indiana.edu, Marvin L. Loopstra bizjetmech@earthlink.net, Mark S. 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Redekop james@uunet.ca, Chenwei Huang chuang@eecs.uic.edu, yachen Chen yachen@math.uiuc.edu, Huang chuang7@uic.edu, Kevin Miller kmiller5@iupui.edu, Trent Payne trent@paradise.net.nz, Linders Juergen Linders@Uni-Duisburg.de, Todd Megee tmegee@datasync.com, Dan Karran dankarran@bigfoot.com, Jeremy Crabtree crc3419@delphi.com, Francesca Carey fresca@mpinet.net, Norman Megill nm@alum.mit.edu, Julian Coombes julianc@intelligentwave.com, Pekka Takala pekka.takala@ilmajoki.fi, Jack Berndt berndt@omi.com, Dr. Martinus 102454.1436@compuserve.com, Ryan Kusnery rkusnery@prodigy.net, Andrew Mcintosh a_mcintosh@ccms.net, Daniel S Dunnam dainel@wompedy.com, Andrew Lister lister@syd.net.au, Steve Wendt stevew@hartnell.cc.ca.us, gn greg@cs.pdx.edu, Richard Tilmann rtilmann@gte.net, johan kullstam johan19@idt.net, Tony Weiler tony@telemind.com, Randy Ribarchak puckstopper@geocities.com, Matthew Merkey PowerMatt@prodigy.net, Matt Hockenberry Graysqrl@concentric.net, Jochen Friedrich jochen@scram.de, John Bryan jnelson@bga.com, Dmitry N. dsh@internetdrive.com, Robert Lyons bob@netrox.net, John Check j4strngs@usa.net, David Hallowell linux@cableinet.co.uk, Daniel S Dunnam daniel@wompedy.com, Pablo Fernandez pefl@usa.net, Christian B. Larsen cbl@post9.tele.dk, Calcazar Quazary calcazar@hotmail.com, Richard Mines rc564@hotmail.com, John Brush jbrush@aros.net, Cory Yardley admin@ocbands.com, Pat Ames pames@fullerton.edu, Eric Steil III esteil@nikki.com, Steven Glaeske sdg307@mail.usask.ca, Joe Barr joe@pjprimer.com, Sylvain Baril sb@tr.cgocable.ca, Victoria Lowder elsa@ms-elsa.com, John McClurg jmcclurg@niu.edu, shannawa@niu.edu, Ryan White rwhite@innocent.com, Raymond Moyers rmoyers@nop.org, Robert B. Raymond II Esq. rbr@amug.org, joe lerch jljr@ptdprolog.net, joe lerch III jliii@ptdprolog.net, Jason Todd jtodd@tig.com.au, Bill Rude brude@pobox.com, Francis Julien stooker@usa.net, Elliott Mitchell ehem@gremlin.mvp.com, Nils Benson z_bensonna@titan.sfasu.edu, Dennis Luemkemann dennis@maserv.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de, Dave Yeo dave_yeo@mindlink.bc.ca, Paul Billings djfrugal@earthlink.net, Luana Biazus yummi@earthlink.net, Arne Blankerts ABlankerts@freepoint.de, Kenneth M. Gardner kengard@norfolk.infi.net, Larry Andrick andrick@pacbell.net, Jeff Ward JKalani@pacbell.net, Anthony Di Pietro lemonpie@tower.net.au, crochu nicolas.crochu@renault.fr, Ismael Lamas zool@jet.es, Jose Mu F1oz kasson@jet.es, Anouar Akhamlich anouar@jet.es, Donald Kern dkern@ixi.net, Eric Sperano cob2k25@cam.org, William Toundas toundas.1@osu.edu, Marcus Harner harner@c-zone.net, Stephen Charlton mega@cableinet.co.uk, Demitri Plessas dplessas@montana.com, Ishtiaque Omar nomad37@rocketmail.com, Edward Agrisea efa@agrisea.net, Donald Bencivenni donb@jax-inter.net =========== =====================