Your college's OS syllabus

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Your college's OS syllabus

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I'm wondering, what are the contents of other universities syllabus for OS? Does it include licensing (which IMHO shouldn't be there, but in another one talking about software legality and law).
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I'm in a 2 year college so I sadly don't have any kind of OS class :P

Hoping I'll have one in at the next school I go to to complete my BA
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I attend North Carolina State University and none of our Operating System course syllabus's seem to have anything about licensing in them.

Here are a few of the Syllabus's
http://courses.ncsu.edu/csc244/lec/601/syllabus.html
http://courses.ncsu.edu/csc501/lec/601/Syllabus.htm

and a schedule for one of them
http://courses.ncsu.edu/csc244/lec/601/
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Re: Your college's OS syllabus

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Hmm... I guess it's just to make the syllabus look 'full' because we don't implement any os, instead we learn unix.
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Re: Your college's OS syllabus

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No OS syllabus. No college. ;-)

Well, actually, I attended the b.i.b. International College, but for Business CS in an 18-month class schedule. System / OS CS wasn't offered there.

We had some lessons in business law, but nothing regarding licensing. They usually assume you will be employed (instead of working freelance / unaffiliated), and that your company will have a legal department deciding on stuff like licensing.

The vast majority of employments is in the Closed Source world, anyway...
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