[LINK] The strange disappearance of UMICH´s NFSv4

[tomk]

On 6/09/2012 7:00 p.m., Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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> Do all universities yank the plug on web servers without caring what 
> content those were serving?. Thoughts? Comments? expletives? FC

Unfortunately, Since Universities started charging for courses, the 
principals of serving data has been tied to budgetary considerations.
Whereas before, no data was ever "no longer available", today it is only 
available if someone pays for it.

What ever happened to the exhalted utopian protected existence that our 
learned institutions once enjoyed.
Whose stupid idea was it to charge for an education.

How to ruin the economy:

1. Charge for an education so that only students from another country 
that will steal all our intellectual property will be able to learn the 
stuff that used to make us the lucky country.
2. Load students down with Hex so that instead of getting on with life, 
raising a family and being a member of a community, they spend the first 
ten years after graduation working three jobs so they can make ends meet.
3. Import immigrants to increase the fertility rate because our local 
students are so overworked they have no time to meet, marry and procreate.
4. Throw out all the paper books because everything is now on Google. 
Err, has anyone noticed that Google start to charge for things as soon 
as they have a monopoly... Stop throwing out those old books - we will 
need them one day.
5. Turn off any servers that have any open source code that the 
University could make money out of by joint venturing a service 
agreement with Google, Apple, Oracle  or Microsoft.

Folks, I'm almost ready to do the forty years in the desert thing... at 
least then it will be just me against the snakes, lizards, scorpions and 
the unshielded sun - in other words I'm calculating better odds in 
surviving against the elements than the fiancial sharks that now run our 
institutions of higher cough cough banking....

TomK