[ale] Awful story...

[Jim Popovitch]

Don't take this as a defensive statement for IBM....

There are 2 different companies involved, according to the story.  The
3 letter company, and the Indian company.  It was the latter that was
doing the hiring, according to what I read.  Now, imagine if big
companies, that used contractors, had (got?) to dictate what tools
those contractors or sub-partners had to utilize and support.  Now
imagine that Microsft is the big company, should they have the right
to force all their partners and contractors into using MS Office when
OpenOffice would do the job?

-Jim P.

On 2009-11-16, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/11/linux-contractor-fired-for-using.html
>
>
> Sorry to hear this, but I know it's true from the IBM side.
>
> You should've seen the blank stares among sales-droids trying to sell us
> hardware when we would demand both fully GUI and fully command-line
> manageable gear.  You'd swear you just told them you needed a flux-capacitor
> and an Infinite Improbability drive.
>
> If these big companies are going to tout their Linux compatibility and their
> Linux friendliness, they need to also make sure to understand that people
> that come a-calling from the Linux world will have a higher likelihood than
> ever before of not having Windows on the desktop.
>
> --j
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