OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

[Jason]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 15:03 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> It's obvious from this discussion and
> from things I have experienced, that software freedom is usually not
> highly valued.  Worse, it's not even considered in many cases.

That is partially true. I do know of several..thousands actually..IT
personnel who are seriously looking at using OSS. They are seeing the
lockdown. I had an IT person say something to me awhile back that hit
the nail on the head. This is paraphrased...it was a long discussion.

"The reason we haven't moved to OSS is because then *we* would be
responsible for fixing it. WE couldn't point the finger at Microsoft or
McAfee when things go bad. We would have to take responsibility for our
own configurations...and you know how well that goes with CIO's who just
want to cover their own ass. They don't even look at our own competence
and ability pool...they only care about who they need to blame when
something goes wrong. And Microsoft is a good fall guy. Of course, the
CIO doesn't know that they can point the finger all they want, but when
it actually comes to legal dispute, our company doesn't have a foot to
stand on."

Then another guy came along and said...

"Hey, we're using Red Hat! They can be a good fall guy too..."