On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > 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.
No need to audit when they're already running such secure software? :) These guys get their clue from watching cutesy primetime Microsoft e-Business commercials, and think damn the whole business world runs on Microsoft. It must be good. Cool thing is IBM is using the same technique to promote Linux. ray
