On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Unless management, fearful of inexperienced, formula-following cretins
> masquerading as auditors, decrees "no external software!!!!"
Interesting...
But building a Linux/BSD/SunOS/whatever install for determining the
capabilities and usefulness of the technology is very different from
building an install to power a large organization's infrastructure.
Solaris itself is external software,
because you definitely didn't develop it internally.
Well, unless of course your organization's name is Oracle :-)
So are all those add-on packages from package repositories and
internal custom system administration scripts required to easily get
Linux doing useful things.
The whole point of 'open source' is that you can add onto it as needed.
If you can't do that, you might as well be running a proprietary OS.
Every serious organization should have an effective
anti-formula-following cretin defense system at the front door.
If they don't, then they are doomed to inefficiency anyways,
losing GNU conveniences is minor compared to other
more serious issues that restriction creates
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