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Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too

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On 2014-02-25 21:31, Huge wrote:
> On 2014-02-25, Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> Employers LIKE to pay for software though.
>> Gives them that warm and fuzzy feeling.
> 
> That's about all it gives them.

Kickbacks?

For a while I worked for a manager who was at first sceptical about free
software, but when I showed him what could be done with Linux, Bash,
Perl and Emacs he let me use whatever I wanted.

While I was there the corporate IT department successfully argued for a
switch from Microsoft Office not to Open Office (which I had advocated
as much as I could) but to StarOffice. They couldn't get out of the
mindset of having to pay commercial developers for stuff, and couldn't
get the idea of perhaps paying the (then) Open Office developers to do
their thing. As Dan suggested, paying Sun probably made them feel warm
and fuzzy.

By the time I left, the corporate IT department's micro-management of
every aspect of data handling and storage was still advancing, I don't
like to think how much of their budget goes into closed source crapware now.

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Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 10:30 +0000
  Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-25 14:08 +0000
    Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-02-25 09:32 -0500
      Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 15:34 +0000
        Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-25 20:04 +0000
        Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-27 15:38 -0800
      Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-25 21:31 +0000
        Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-26 10:46 +0000
          Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-27 10:08 +0000

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