[ale] Have a bit of fun with a book

[Mike Harrison]

> and scrutinized as weapons? Other than PGP and other encryption, does anyone
> know of situations where GNU/Linux is barred as being subversive?

Any pure Microsoft shop. Microsoft itself.

Luckily, the intelligent parts of our government are embracing it.
That will actually help keep it from being completely evil.

Still, I see nmap, nessus, sniffit... as -tools-. Good ones.
The tool should not be criminalized, it's improper use should be.
I find the arguments very similiar to gun control.
No, I don't mean using both hands for accuracy.

An observation:

   One of my projects (UtiliFlex) does a lot of work with utility companies.
   When we deal with a US based utility, we get a lot of flack for this
   at most utilities. "Not in my datacenter" has been heard more than once,
   and in one place I had seen what was in their datacenter, so I had to
   ask: What about your "spam filtering appliance" or your Linksys WiFi AP's or your
   Cisco routers and firewalls (*nix/not Linux, I know).. or the TomTom in the car...
   or the few thousand VxWorks based devices they had.

   They -fear- what they don't know, rather than embrace a possible alternative.

   but.. I wasn't going to be doing any future biz with them anyway... ;)

   Outside the US, running Linux is not only a non-issue,
   it's a positive one. Closed 3 for 3 systems last week outside the US.
   WooHoo! My only issue is delivering finished customized systems
   (I'm still looking for uber code monkeys).

   Still talking to US ones... months and months.. demo after demo..
   I've had one nibble, if I installed the PHP system on Server 2003 and IIS.
   It's such a kludge we refused.  In one case they really wanted our
   Asterisk based IVR system.... running on Server 2003, in VMWare,
   with hardware for POTS DID lines...

   They do not understand. They should be publically humiliated.
   But alas, they would not understand how they were being humiliated.

Fear the ignorant, becuase they tend to rise to positions of authority.