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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:36:59 -0800
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:57:10 +0000
Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> >   My new boss decided she couldn't STAND "non-standard",
> >   meaning Non-Win, software/systems.  
> 
> This really doesn't make sense, if somebody really can't stand
> "non-Windows" from a "it's different from what I know / am used to",
> 
> [...]
> 
> I'll never understand the idea that one is tied to specific
> languages/platforms when doing software programming.

It's management culture; 99% of the time it has nothing at all to do
with usability/familiarity (the people making these decisions are
almost never the people actually using the systems in question anyway,)
and everything to do with Management feeling a compulsive need to be In
Control of every little thing.