massachusetts institue of technology. richard stallman is from there. most linux utilities were developed there and a lot of open source projects were and are made there!!! is it the best university for linux and open source??

  • Meltrax@lemmy.world
    534·
    6 months ago

    I live right near it, and have a lot of friends that went there. Not a strong opinion. Fortunately for you, you’ll find these two things at almost any university in the United States:

    • A Computer Science department that actually teaches the exact same curriculum as MIT.
    • An English department that will teach you how to use capitalization and punctuation in sentences.
    • adrrdgz@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      313·
      6 months ago

      an english department?? well that would be nice thank you!! i’m not originally from the usa and well still. even if a university is as good as mit. it’s still not “mit”!!! the home of richard stallman. the home of geniuses etc!! woa!

      • Meltrax@lemmy.world
        15·
        6 months ago

        I honestly can’t tell if you’re trolling…

        But to give you the benefit of the doubt, MIT is a school. There’s nothing very exciting about it, I’m sorry. The students are smart, but so are students at a lot of universities. It’s not really any better than the others, except for some name recognition. They teach the same things, they provide the same opportunities.

        Stallman didn’t even go there. He went to Harvard for his bachelor’s degree and was a “visiting researcher” at MIT. MIT has some cool research projects, but many many technical universities in the USA have those. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon, hell just any school that has graduate students and a computer science department.

        Now don’t get me wrong, Boston is a great city (I live here, I love it) and MIT is a good school. But that’s it, it’s just good. Many many many smart people have come from other schools. Linus Torvalds has had an even greater impact on some of the topics you seem to care about than Stallman, and he went to the University of Helsinki in Finland. Schools are just schools.

      • magic_lobster_party@kbin.run
        51·
        6 months ago

        Fortunately for you, most universities in the world offer a similar computer science curriculum as the ones in US.

        Not sure about English department though.