A baby-step in the right direction...

[Brian Cluff]

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.

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 at 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 at 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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