On 04/04/2015 13:35, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> >> What a revelation about at least a minority of Gentoo users ! >> -- philosophers of science + math, besides well-trained physicists. >> > > I think at least half of us on the Council have degrees in the > physical sciences. > > I work mostly with scientists and I have to say that in the last 10 > years the embrace of FOSS by scientists has been considerable. Who > wants to beg the boss for money and with IT for support of SAS when > you can just download R and install it yourself, and so on? Of > course, it tends to also lead to a bit of a mess when that little tool > that was thrown together ends up being depended upon by an entire > department and isn't up to it.
So it's not any different to how enterprise works then? Like the cobbled-together mush of perl and bash (that does emerge over ssh in a for loop) becomes the one critical app in all of IT that the ISO-9000 and something cert totally depends on? I've written such perl and bash myself... I recently had the pleasure of converting a small version of that to Ansible. That was fun. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
