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You cite "a professor", and this article is also about a singular professor. That implies that this is the exception, not the rule. Students have ample opportunities elsewhere for exposure to "enterprise commercial software".

The delta between Jitsi Meet and Zoom or Teams for video-conferencing is minimal from a user experience perspective. The idea that a CS graduate from MIT would struggle to figure out Zoom or Teams at their first job is laughable.



> The idea that a CS graduate from MIT would struggle to figure out Zoom or Teams at their first job is laughable

What is worse, is that if this was the case, the University failed spectacularly in their goal. I would mean they trained a monkey to do one trick.

I sincerely hope a university like MIT is better than simply training monkeys some tricks which they then repeat ad-infinitum at "their jobs".




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