BethLynn Eicher and I wrote an article about elitism hurting the Open Source universe but it's applicable here.
Sticking your nose in the air at something you don't approve of doesn't create converts to your thinking, it makes you look like a stuck-up jerk. You don't convince people your way is better with a baseball bat, you do it by showing them the way to doing things differently. Not everyone has the luxury of what operating system they run, whether at work or even at home. Especially at work the decision of what platform(s) is used is usually made waaaay above our pay-grades, and for one or more of a number of reasons, among them: politics, bidding, preferences (whether appropriate to the situation), pricing, the need to run an OS-specific software package. The Code of Ethics says that bias is to be avoided. You may not think a mailing list is a "professional setting" - but the CoE also says that we, as professionals, should be setting the standards for the rest of the system administrators out there. No matter what your opinion on the way a company or organization is run, you need to leave that opinion in your head and not let it color your judgment of the systems you may administer or the people who may be using them. Moose a 20+ yr system administrator using her laptop running Windows p.s. the article mentioned above: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/ROSE-Blog-Rikki-s-Open-Source-Exchange/Open-Source-Should-Be-Open-To-All _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
