Robert you might have said that as a joke but all the startups I have
been part of were 100% Mac for developers.

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote:
> They must have all been Mac users.
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Kerry Sainsbury <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> It's a fairly standard list, although you'll often see people being forced
>> to use IE6. Some of these restrictions need to be relaxed for developers,
>> and they usually are in my experience.
>>
>> My favourite restriction was one corporate that had blocked the use of the
>> right-mouse button. Beat that!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Kerry
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:24 AM, [email protected]
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am curious... I work for a large software vendor and our policies
>>> are:
>>>
>>> -windows only (XP)
>>> -outside IM is banned (we have internal jabber server)
>>> -mandatory software that tracks every piece of software installed on
>>> your machine
>>> -manual proxy that tracks every outgoing web url (no banned urls tho)
>>> -skype is strictly forbidden
>>> -no use of SaaS software for company information
>>> -virus checker on every machine, including servers (kills performance
>>> on builds)
>>> -encrypted harddrives
>>> -itunes is banned
>>> -VPN policy forces all traffic to be routed over internet
>>>
>>> The reasons behind this are supposedly that the company must track all
>>> information for legal purposes.
>>>
>>> So I'm curious - do companies like Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel
>>> have policies like this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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