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Re: OT The platform wars are over... [message #99710 is a reply to message #99709]

Mon, 28 July 2008 08:46

dc[3]
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"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote:
>
>Ah, the plight of the brutally oppressed Mac user.

Well, in the case of the PC nazi dept. head, my wife got a termination
letter hand delivered to her on New Years Eve. Rather than punching
him in the nose, we filed a grievance. Both the dept. head
and the provost who backed him were gone in 6 months when all the
facts came out. It wasn't about platforms, it was about a very bad
dept. head and the platform issue was a symptom, not a cause.

I was working at a university
>in the mid-90's when we gently suggested that, since there were very serious
>questions as to whether Apple could continue as a going concern, it might
>be a good idea for Mac-centric departments at least diversify their platform
>choices.

Reasonable advice. Zero chance of enforcing it on faculty as you
discovered.

>IT departments are charged with a different mission that home users. To
this
>day where I work I don't tell people what computers, operating systems,
and
>applications they can or can't use. It's not my job, or my place to tell
>them that, what I CAN tell them is what I can promise them I will support.
>I tell them that if they're running a laptop I set up with an operating
system
>I know if it breaks I'll fix it. If they want to use Mail on a OS X or check
>IRC using emacs on a minix machine, more power to them, but I can't say
for
>sure that I can fix things if they break.

Fair enough. They have budgets and can pay for their own support.
You do realize the implications, right?

>But anyway, you're right, we're all out to 'ban' your Macs.

Hmmm.

DC

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		OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Sun, 27 July 2008 23:18
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 08:30
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 08:46
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 13:06
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 13:28
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:01
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:29
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:55
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Ed on Thu, 31 July 2008 10:45
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Thu, 31 July 2008 12:49
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Thu, 31 July 2008 16:16
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Fri, 01 August 2008 04:01
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Sarah on Fri, 01 August 2008 05:01
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Kim W on Fri, 01 August 2008 07:46
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: kerryg on Fri, 01 August 2008 09:19
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Fri, 01 August 2008 14:17
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Fri, 01 August 2008 17:53
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Sarah on Sat, 02 August 2008 04:07
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Sat, 02 August 2008 05:34
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Sarah on Sat, 02 August 2008 19:48
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Fri, 01 August 2008 12:52
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 04 August 2008 00:04
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 04 August 2008 09:02
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:23
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:43
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:59
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 19:11
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 09:19
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 09:23
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: kerryg on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:39
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:55
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: kerryg on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:45
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 16:53
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Mon, 28 July 2008 16:25
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 16:55
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Tue, 29 July 2008 06:49
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Bill L on Mon, 28 July 2008 20:56
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 21:47
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Sarah on Tue, 29 July 2008 11:55
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Tue, 29 July 2008 13:56
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Jamie K on Tue, 29 July 2008 14:47
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: kerryg on Tue, 29 July 2008 17:21
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Tue, 29 July 2008 15:36
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 04:45
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Wed, 30 July 2008 00:52
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 04:45
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 04:58
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Wed, 30 July 2008 07:11
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 07:36
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Kim W on Wed, 30 July 2008 07:46
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 08:39

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