In a message dated: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 17:36:27 EDT
Tom Rauschenbach said:
>Sometimes some of that "talk" is company policy. Often when people say that
>they are 'forced" to use Windows, they don't mean that that need Windows for
>some reason or other, they mean that they are forced to use Windows. There
>is no application that need at work that doesn't have a better replacement on
>Linux. And I find the single desktop very limiting compared to my eight KDE
>desktops. But my employer says "It's my machine and I say it runs Windows."
Hmmm, I say: "You hired me to do a job and for my expertise required
to do that job. I can do that job in one of two ways;
efficiently or inefficiently. If you'd like me to be the most efficient
I possibly can, then I require certain tools to do so. If you'd like me
to be very inefficient, then the tools you provide might well help me do that.
Btw, while I'm inefficiently doing the job using tools I'm not overly familiar
with 'because you said so', I'll also be looking elsewhere for employment with
a company who values efficiency of dictatorial and mindless rules without a decent
understanding of what they're really in business for."
They are not paying you to "use Windows", nor did they, I assume,
hire you to "use Windows". I'm all for a corporate policy that states
"We only *support* X." No problem, I can live with that, since it
means that if I choose to use Y, I don't get support. Which is also
fine, since if I intend to use Y and not X, I probably also
understand I'm going to be supporting myself anyway.
Ultimately, there is little stopping anyone from installing Linux on
any system they have direct physical access to. Even if there is a
coporate policy that says "We only support Windows", they're not
going to know you're not using Windows.
Of course, as I said, if the wording of the policy is "You must use
only that software which we install", then I am very quickly going to
be looking elsewhere for employment, since I can not possibly do any
job they hire me for efficiently using Windows. Well, maybe I could
use Windows to efficiently find and report bugs in that environment, but I
can't think of much else.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away.
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