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IBM tries to hook computer science students (News.com)

News.com reports that IBM is offering free (as in beer) software and discounted hardware to universities. "Announced Tuesday, the IBM Academic Initiative is designed to create computing science curricula around IBM-backed technologies, notably the Java programming language and open-source software such as Linux."
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