Doug Loss wrote:
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 17:26, Hans Paijmans wrote:I feel sad when I think of the americans that I like and the americans that I admire (possibly disjunct sets). But do not forget that I, an assistant professor on a dutch university will be forced to teach in english for a class of dutch students and to discuss the affairs of my faculty in english in a meeting of dutch staff members...I can see where this would grate upon your sensibilities. But I don't see how SEUL can be considered to have anything to do with it.
Why fight the monopoly of Microsoft if we surrender without comment to the American monopoly on education and culture? SEUL comes into it because I have the distinct feeling that non-American attempts at cooperation and non-American software in the past have been ignored by SEUL. If that has been an honest communication glitch I would like to discuss the chain of events with you off-list. -- Dr. J.J. Paijmans Tilburg University, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Linguistics & AI Tilburg, Netherlands (+31) (0)13-4662693 http://pi0959.kub.nl Home: Elzenstraat 1, 5581 VS Waalre, http://paijmans.net