The following section on Academic Freedom also rings true. All the way back in 2000, Intel granted million$$ in equipment to universities through their Education 2000 program.
At one R1 uni, several million$ were split between Arts & Sci and Engineering. The meddlesome CS chair who would go on to become a don in the Cloud Mafia was the Engineering PI, and he required all equipment procured for his college to run MS Windows.
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