4 out of 5 Professors say NO LINUX! 4701

Perhaps things are different in the U.S., but I found the post rather puzzling, Rex. My own "first day at University" is now a good few years behind me, but my recollection is that I was in my SECOND year before we were lectured by ANY prof. This guy not only met FIVE professors on his FIRST DAY, but was instructed by four of them on such comparatively mundane as which OS NOT to use!

Turning to Winkipedia, I found part of the answer at least:-

follows the North American system), equivalently senior academics to buttistant and buttociate professors are generally known as "Lecturers", "Senior Lecturers" and "Readers", with professorships reserved for only the most senior academic staff. A Professor in these countries holds either a departmental chair (generally as the head of the department or of a sub-department) or a personal chair (a professorship awarded specifically to that individual). In that sense, only full professors (North American style) are equivalents of professors. The breastle of "Professor" is a great honour, normally reserved in correspondence to full professors only; lecturers and readers are properly addressed by their academic qualification (Dr for a Ph.D. or M.D. and Mr otherwise).

In short, professors be buggered! This bloke isn't making up what his would-be PROFESSORS said, he's making up what his would-be LECTURERS said!

Conclusion:- The OP is specifically North American, and lying about events which he imagines to occur in specifically North American Universities.

Bill