Getting Hung Up on the Apple-Microsoft War

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>> Quote of the day, in the NYTimes:
>> "... the market-share figures includes sales of computers to corporations,
>> which buy hundreds of PC's at a time. And the corporate world long ago
>> standardized on Windows. It makes no difference how superior Mac OS X or
>> Linux may be; the world's I.T. staffs will switch their entire companies
>> away from Windows the day Rush Limbaugh votes for Hillary Clinton.
>
> <snip>
>
> Many moons ago (about 200 to be exact) when I worked for TRW and PCs
> were several orders of magnitude worse than now, and the first Macs had
> just come out, literally every scientist in the building demanded a Mac.
>  So they ended up with a Mac and a PC on their desk (with a VAX here
> and there).  So they had sufficient pull at that time to demand the
> tools that they wanted to use.  But these sorts of places are few and
> far between.  Recently I was told that I was not allowed to put a Linux
> partition on a PC at a place for which I was a consultant.  But the IT
> guy was too dumb to know that Linux was on the box anyway.  He just
> couldn't figure out why the disk "seemed" to be smaller than it was
> supposed to be.

Unless i'm truly desperate for employment, i will never again work 
anywhere that I'm not allowed to run Linux.

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