On 16/07/09 09:23, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Tony Mechelynck
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> On 15/07/09 21:51, Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
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> >>> Our IT department has forbidden the use of gVim. ;-(((
> >
> >> Is this a joke? I don't see the point in stopping people from using
> >> their favorite text editor. Sure I could work with another text
> >> editor, but I would be 10 times less efficient. I don't think that's
> >> what my boss would like.
> >
>
>
> Are any managers anywhere not like this? Doesn't Dilbert accurately
> reflect the reality in all companies?
>
> I suppose this is called hijacking the thread completely (although I
> didn't really start it), but I wish I had some forum to discuss the
> totally opposite cultures in the free software and proprietary software
> worlds.
>
> Ephraim
There isn't a word by me in the above quote, but do you (or rather, does
the OP) mean that _every_ use of free software is forbidden at the
company he's working for?
Anyway, I don't believe that in this particular venue you'll find many
people to defend the Cathedral model against the Bazaar model.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
Once upon a time, when I was training to be a mathematician, a group of
us bright young students taking number theory discovered the names of
the smaller prime numbers.
2: The Odd Prime --
It's the only even prime, therefore is odd. QED.
3: The True Prime --
Lewis Carroll: "If I tell you three times, it's true."
31: The Arbitrary Prime --
Determined by unanimous unvote. We needed an arbitrary prime
in case the prof asked for one, and so had an election. 91
received the most votes (well, it *looks* prime) and 3+4i the
next most. However, 31 was the only candidate to receive none
at all.
Since the composite numbers are formed from primes, their qualities are
derived from those primes. So, for instance, the number 6 is "odd but
true", while the powers of 2 are all extremely odd numbers.
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