[NTLUG:Discuss] linux usage and fruitcakes [way off topic]

[Scott Hollomon]

james osburn wrote:

> linux usage and fruitcakes.
>
> linux [and fruit cake] is probably not for everyone.
> god i hope linux wasn't crammed down everyones
> throat  (like a big hunk of fruit cake).
> i have worked for several place where employees
> were told to do XYZ and give a deadline but never
> given the tools to get XYZ.  or trained to use the tools
> they have, but these same employees
> knew that if they had office or some othere proprietary
> software they would be able to finish assigned task
> and keep thus jobs.
>
> firing just seems kind of extreme but this is your
> place.
> sorry i had to opine.
> also i really dont care for fruitcake.
>
> jim
>
>
>
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Given what the Business Software Alliance could/would do to us if they 
found us using unlicensed software I think firing is the appropriate 
response.  Nobody fired for using MS, just using unlicensed products, 
from anybody.  Incidentally, number fired to date under policy = 0 and 
we hope it stays that way.

With regard to forcing people to use linux, its the company's computers 
and systems.  The company makes all kinds of decisions from where fleet 
vehicles can buy gas, to what suppliers we buy cardboard boxes from to 
what runs on our computers all based on our view of what provides us an 
economic advantage in the marketplace.

-- 
R. Scott Hollomon
Treasurer
Collin Street Bakery, Inc.
401 W. 7th Avenue
Corsicana, TX 75110
(p)903.654.6675
(f)903.654.6767
scott at collinstreet.com