[Tfug] CIS faculty at PCC west disavow existence of Linux classes

[James Blanford]

> baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? yes sir yes sir three bags 
> full. one for my master. one for my dame. but none for the little boy 
> who cries in the lane.
> 
> --JACK


Ya know, I've wondered about this for 45 years and I still don't get it.
What happens to the third bag of wool?

And thanks for all of your suggestions, I actually went through the
responses and made notes.  I think I can learn the minimal "C" that I
need to play around with open source software without having to deal
with PCC's hostility.

I'd like to make a statement concerning Kyle's response:

> He told us up front that he would not support Linux, and any problems 
> we had were our to figure out. That was fine with us.

Well, that would be acceptable to me, if I wanted to take the course bad
enough and had no other alternatives.  But it wouldn't be fine.  This
community needs Linux.  It needs the high quality software and it needs
the jobs that would be created to get Linux to work at all our
government offices, schools, libraries and etc.

If PCC were really about community education it would be leading the
effort to deploy Linux throughout Pima county and be training folks for
those jobs already.  Instead, they take the reactionary position that
Linux is OK so long as none of their full-time faculty has to be
confronted with it and actively and vociferously deny the existence of
the two Linux courses that they do offer.

Does anyone want to go visit our government offices with me and tell
them this?  I could really use a calming influence so that I don't get
arrested for assaulting a bureaucrat with a dead(ly) penguin.