and was told to uninstall them because they were:
> a) a security risk because they were "open"
> and
> b) buggy and prone to break other software because they weren't 
> microsoft products

hmm. interesting never thought you could interpret "open source" that
way (stupid).How do these people get into positions where they can make
a decision about what software to install and what not. I had the same
problem an year back when the Grad Lab admin here a LSU refused to
install OO(ofcourse citing no reason) on a particular machine that I
used to work. I was pretty sure users like me did not have the rights to
install software. But I was able to install it on my space on the same
machine. The same thing happened with mozilla. The funny thing is its
almost an year and still they haven't audited the system yet.  

Karthik

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