University At Buffalo Endorses Open Source

Math421 writes "The Faculty Senate at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, approved a resolution endorsing Open Source for the campus. They explicitly suggest Linux and OpenOffice." While this is just one school, the document collects in one compact list many of the things that make a lot of conventional software (including Microsoft's) expensive in terms of freedom and privacy as well as money. Other schools' students and faculty members would do well to read it.

Interesting...

[ewhenn]

As I was a student there in 2000, they had signed a contract with Microsoft, basically giving all staff and students free copies of Office 2000, Win2000, etc. Quite a drastic change in a short time frame, transitioning from exclusively MS office products to endorsing open source.

That's just the faculty, not the administration

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't get your hopes up too much, UB people. The referenced link was a resolution of the faculty senate, not a declaration of the administration. I'm not aware of the faculty power at UB, but at most of the universities I've had contact with (Penn State, Ohio State, Indiana State, Washington U. St. Louis), the faculty senate is just a way for the faculty to be collectively ignored by the administration. So, when the administration ends the MS contract, I'll be impressed, but not until.