On 09/25/2009 02:57 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM, steve<[email protected]> wrote:
ehe, it ideally should be the tech team's responsibility to decide what
would work best for the user. Just because 'User' wants that new shiny
malware rich flash based resource hogging widget, a good sysadmin does not
let him have it. Same argument applies here.
Dangerous argument you're making there. Who decides what's best for
you? We don't need to be pushing mommies and daddies onto our Supreme
Court judges. We can argue that file formats and information exchange
standards remain open, what we, or rather you, can't do is push your
ideology of what's right/good/etc on to others.
Sorry, I stand corrected. Funny how it is easy to slip up in such matters, when
one instinctively feels that something is wrong.
Hence, if they want Macs, then that's what they get. If that choice
means that others are forced to buy Macs too, then you complain, else
it's just none of your business.
Actually, on more thinking, i realized that the instinct was correct in this
specific case. The reason being, the funds that would be used to purchase the
said user's preference of laptops are public funds ie: our tax money -- and so I
still think, the user's choice is wrong. If they feel they need a Mac let 'em
buy it themselves from their own money. Public funds should not be used to
prefer one vendor specifically, irrespective of user's preference.
cheers,
- steve
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