On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Brian Cluff <
brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
> We never did have a single IT person that worked at my school that
> didn't fall in love with Linux... Even the Windows fanboys eventually
> enjoyed not having to deal with viruses and such Windows annoyances.
>
> The attitude that I HATE to see is when an IT type specifically says
> that he only installs and recommends Windows, not because it's the best
> thing for the job or the customer, but that it is the best thing for
> their job security. They usually even run Linux at home themselves, but
> they just can't resist a sure thing with having to get paid large
> amounts of money to come by and clean the gunk out of someone's system a
> couple of times a year.
sounds like our healthcare system... ;)
-jmz
>
> Personally, I've found that I still get the work when I've installed
> linux... it's just that the work is a lot more interesting than the same
> old virus clean out, or system reload.
>
> Brian
>
> Stu wrote:
>> Our main IT guy once told me he would *love* to see Ubuntu on the
>> company desktops, unfortunately it's not his decision.
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:15 -0700, Stephen wrote:
>>> After that step is Linux desktop installations :-D
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Stu <wien33@cox.net> wrote:
>>>> Thanks! Phase II of my plan is to show it to my co-workers, and get them
>>>> to request it on their computers as well...
>>>> Today, the intranet... tomorrow, the WORLD!
>>>> ...Muwhahahaha!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:37 -0700, AZ RUNE wrote:
>>>>> That is awesome and good work
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Stu <wien33@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>> Just this past week, I finally convinced our new IT
>>>>> director to install
>>>>> the Windows version of Inkscape on my work computer since I've
>>>>> been
>>>>> using it for the past several years anyway.
>>>>> A baby-step in the right direction for them, and I can
>>>>> finally take my
>>>>> old laptop home!
>>>>>
>>>>> Stu
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