Robin,
I am sure that they must have checked their licence's and found out they hadn't got any newer one's than 98. Can't think of any other reason. You can put your pen (mightier than the sword) down and hopefully not have to fight when you explain that it does not cost a penny.
I checked with the head of the computer centre and it looks like it was just a case of some managemers in the School of English getting the wrong end of the stick. There is apparently no official university policy, but the computer centre strongly advise against any _Windows_ other than Win98. The reason is that people install XP, don't patch it and leave vulnerable services running with no protection. Then the thing gets wormy and goes down, and the poor techies have to go and fix it.
As for attitudes to Linux, a lot of the low-level techies don't like it because they don't understand it; the sysadmins are all using Linux anyway!
Sir Robin
Tony.
-----Original Message----- From: Robin Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
Lanman wrote:
Just curious about something. How many of the list members
are using
Linux in the workplace and how?
I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what
with it, and
which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what
interesting things
they're doing with Linux.
I'm using Linux at work in a university department for the usual office stuff and as a local FTP server (though I seem to be the only person who
makes much use of this). I use LyX for my own academic writing and OpenOffice for correcting/commenting on student papers (I've set up a series of styles and macros for this, which makes it a lot easier).
However, my boss has just informed me that there is a new policy requiring all teachers to use Windows 98. War may be declared.
Sir Robin
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