From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Buchs Subject: Re: General advice beyond Org Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 08:50:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7dc580d0ea76c21328dc586ffadb5499@openmail.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <7dc580d0ea76c21328dc586ffadb5499@openmail.cc> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" To: edgar@openmail.cc Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org List-Id: emacs-orgmode.gnu.org As a student, you simply need to go along with your supervisor's recommendations. You are not in a position to dictate the terms. Using the proprietary tools will not hurt you, unless you need to buy your own. If it were the case that you needed to buy your own, then I would ask your supervisor for another solution. Even as a Junior faculty member, you may be in close collaboration with other faculty and should follow the consensus. That is how you work with other people effectively. You don't keep asserting that your solution is better. When you are calling the shots, you can use the tools you wish. So, you need to adjust your attitude. It may be that you are presenting the issue of principles - I prefer free, you prefer proprietary, but that is not really the true issue. Maybe you don't know the proprietary tools and don't want to learn them or feel you can't learn them. Choice of tools you use is no reason to switch graduate programs. This is entirely a matter of getting along with other people, not being selfish, etc. These are life skills we are talking about. Kevin Buchs On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 7:28 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > _I_ need help. I am in graduate school, and I keep having issues with my > advisor for my strong inclination to use free software. I am obviously not > in position to refuse, but she dislikes to have discussions about it. She > pays a stipend to me every month, and my tuition is waved. > > Is anyone here aware of a place where they do computational human > biomechanics, mechanics, materials or finite elements where I could > interact with free software? (having github, LaTeX, Python, etc.; avoid > Micro$oft products, Matlab, Mathematica, etc.). Is there no place where one > can simply use free software on a daily basis? > > It seems from her comments that I am, otherwise, a good researcher. She is > a nice person, but I fear that this may become an issue in the future for > me (whether with her or other people). > > As a student or junior faculty, how do you go about this? Do you just nod > and wave your freedom good bye? > > Thank you! (I will post this in other fora as well; don't let that to > discourage you from answering, please). > > ------------------------------------------------- > > ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of > the NSA's hands! > $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No > bandwidth quotas! > Commercial and Bulk Mail Options! >