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dc[3]
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"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote:
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>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
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 08:30
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 08:46
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 13:06
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 13:28
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:01
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By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:29
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By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:55
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
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By: Sarah on Sat, 02 August 2008 04:07
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By: Sarah on Sat, 02 August 2008 19:48
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:23
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:43
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
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Re: OT The platform wars are over...
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