On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:04 AM, R.S. wrote:
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I think it is rather technical, not ethical or organisational
issue: It is *easy* to have illegal software on PC, sometimes you
are even unaware of it. I mean a lot of small but usefull tools
like Windows Commander, archivizers, DVD-burning software etc. etc.
Even if you have some "tools" for z/OS it is simply not so easy to
install it on the host - usually several persons are involed,
usually someone could ask - "Did we buy it ? How did you get it ?".
From the other hand, people are interested in having some bells &
whistles on *their* PC (even company owned), while mainframe is not
*their*. It is not *personal*. It's "common".
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
Radoslaw:
I worked in a place where it was semi common to have questionable
software. I suspect that one of the reasons why was that management
was so tight with the $$ that the sysprogs would install software and
never follow through with has it been purchased. They also had a
penchant for firing sysprogs almost every 6 months so no one could
keep track of what was what. Was it done on purpose? Probably not as
management was too damn stupid (sorry about the language). For some
reason upper management like to promote only from outside the
department. That meant a meter reading manager was the sysprog boss.
Talk about screw loose types. They may have done it on purpose I gave
up guessing. They would choose equipment based on cost NOT if it was
going to be useful after 6 months. I went toe to toe with an "upper"
manager over a choice of a CPU that was already obsolete when they
made their choice. To my utter disbelief they picked a cpu that had
cob webs on it (literally) over another cpu that would support
current software. They had no concept of support, just that it was
cheap. I guess meter reading supervisors worked for that company.
Ed
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