[plug] Linux-based ISPs and TCO

[Chris Caston]

On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 00:03, Hook wrote:
> Leon Brooks wrote:
> > I went through iiNet on their last open day (and have two of their handout
> > bottle-openers to prove it if anyone wants one), and saw a lady using PINE
> in
> > a PuTTY window on her Windows box talking to a Linux server - resisting
> > pressure from management and peers to switch to Outlook. I also saw one
> > web-developer in an adjoining office, pointedly using a full-screen Linux
> > session and screen(1) on the Windows box he was forced by office policy to
> > use.
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> .. and I use cygwin which gives me X and ssh sessions to the development
> servers, and elm in an ssh window for internal email, all on an XP box. If I
> really wanted to be a rebble, I could use the knoppix CD that I've got here
> at home :-)



This makes me wonder if you got fired due to a refusal to use Windows
instead of Linux (your preferred choice) you could sue under unfair
dismissal.

As usual self-employment rocks.

regards,

Chris Caston 

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