will hill wrote: > On 2003.11.07 00:57 michael dolan wrote: >>.... >>I also tried to install open office and mozilla on a windows 2000 >>computer at work (I work for a large public flagship university here in >>town), 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 > > No, really? That is so stupid and backward. Can't those morons figure out > their source of pain? It's like they are protecting the spear through their > side, "This belongs to Bill Gates and only he can turn it, thank you." Is it > a campus wide thing? You would think that the University would demand people > run Mozilla and have their own version of it for local download. Because IE > and Lookout let third parties install whatever they want, LSU has to know > they have no control over their machines. What do they think they are doing? > What would the morons think of Knoppix? > > That's a real change from when I worked for Nuclear Science and the LTRC. I > could plug whatever the local administrator let me right onto the network. > He had a clue. I ran Red Hat and Debian there without problems while the > Windoze machines suffered all sorts of bugs and malware. At the LTRC, I did > not have to ask anyone because I was the guy who had to fix things that > broke. Then again, the DOTD people were being forced from Word Perfect to M$ > Word, which permanently wrecked formatting on five years worth of work. Has > the University gone stupid?
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