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Microsoft’s grant has strings attached? | |
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| Time: 11:13 EST/16:13 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft's Canadian subsidiary has established a $10 million fund to support technology research and development at Canadian universities. But the first grant awarded from the fund has already caused an uproar, after one of the recipients agreed to require a class in a Microsoft programming language as part of the deal. The Microsoft Canada Academic Innovation Alliance was formally launched Wednesday, with a $2.3 million grant to University of Waterloo. The grant will fund, among other projects, a research program developing a mathematical recognition engine for the Tablet PC, for which Microsoft has developed operating system. | ||
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| #1 By 2459 (24.206.97.178) at 8/15/2002 1:02:43 PM |
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God forbid the students learn something useful (might help them get a job). I like C++, too, but it isn't as if C# is proprietary (and not totally unlike C++ in syntax). C# replacing C++ was most likely the University's doing. They probably could've offered both classes, but didn't see much point since the overall curriculum probably focuses on OOP concepts more than any one language.
I don't think ZD would've bothered if it were Sun giving the grant in exchange for teaching Java on some new Sun servers. |
| #2 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 8/15/2002 4:32:55 PM |
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Most all grants come with conditions.
"I will give you $20 million, but you must name the new library after me." "I will give you $20 million, but you cannot use it to slaughter fluffy kittens for research." "I will give you $20 million, but you can only use it for researching the impact of bio-engineered corn." Even government money comes with conditions. |
| #3 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 8/16/2002 12:50:17 AM |
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hellyon - No, actually there is no difference.
The University did not have to accept the money, but that they choose to do so obviously means the stipulations in the grant were acceptable to the U. Universities refuse money all of the time for various reasons, so it's not like anybody was forced to do anything. |
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