RE: The only thing I miss about Windows
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:13:41 -0700 Issac Trotts <ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu>
wrote:
> My solution was to quit the job where they forced me to use Windows, and
> take a job where I can use any operating system I like.
>>Jamin wrote in reply:
>>Some people aren't so lucky. An amazing number of employer's aren't open
>>minded enough to consider allowing their employees to run the OS of their
>>choice
I'd agree with Jamin here. My former employer Toshiba has an IT manager
that is so anti open source it's unbelievable. I do believe that one of the
guys still there has finally managed to talk the boss into using a rh box as
a gateway. yay!!! I tried to trial openoffice but was rather rudely told
by the boss "we are a microsoft company and we ONLY use microsoft office
here, take that software off NOW". His tone didn't leave much room for
debate (so much for a caustic german boss ;-) ) - and for those that flame
me for that last comment - i'm half german myself so I have some idea of
what i'm talking about. My former bosses opinion of Linux was that it was a
piece of *hit and you couldn't get any support for it, and device driver
support was non existant. I was flabbergasted to say the least...
Anyways...not all employers are unbiased to non microsoft o/s....
Dave
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