[ale] my company and linux

Thu Jan 24 18:27:40 EST 2002

Does anyone here work for a compnay that was actually audited after receiveg
the BSA memos that were sent late last year?

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From: phardie [mailto:phardie]On Behalf Of Pete Hardie
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:10 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] my company and linux

Stephen Turner wrote:
>
> why wont the company i work at use linux? well the IT
> dudes reply;
> 1 with linux you have to enter some information to get
> it to work on the network with windows 2k you just
> install and plug it in.

Bzzzt.  On install, you enter *AN IP ADDRESS* or the DHCP server....sheesh
what have they been reading?

>
> 2 if anything goes wrong with linux its extreamly hard
> to troubleshoot since its open source, and no tech
> support so once you do get someone who knows what they
> are doing on the phone they still arent sure cause its
> probobly been modified,

Yeah, right.  I was having trouble with mgetty and caller ID, and none of
the
suggestions I was getting seemed to help (Thanks for the suggestions,
though,
guys!)
so I downloaded the source and looked at it and BINGO, found and solved my
problem

>
> 3 i would have to go back to school to learn it and
> its steep learning curve presents a problem

Here's you response - "So, because *you* can't learn it fast enough,
you're willing to cost the company thousands of dollars in lost time
due to viruses, Microsoft-forced upgrades, and BSA audits?"

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Scientific Atlanta, Digital Video Services Group

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