In peaceful times, people cling to broken systems simply because “that’s how it’s always been done”. Comfort is a prison.

This crisis is a great opportunity to screw Microsoft.

Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

Canadians should be agressively lobbying their politicians to embrace Linux and the open source ecosystem. Call your representatives. Write to your city council. Contact your town IT department. Do it now.

  • ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host
    14·
    7 小时前

    I have been laughed out every time I’ve mentioned it for years.

    I got approval from my managers and IT to install a Linux based OS on my work desktop, then a half-wit Windows-fanboy dev chimed in claiming our insurance would not cover the operating system if there were ever a security breach, data loss, etc. to say I was infuriated was an understatement.

    All we use is a Web-App to accomplish our tasks, no in-house proprietary executables or anything along those lines, hell they claimed their Web-App wouldn’t work on Firefox browsers, which of course was a lie.

    • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
      2·
      4 小时前

      Wow, I guess that makes sense. But if they were going to move to a significant count of Linux machines I would assume that an enterprise edition (like red hat) would probably be covered by insurance. Since they then have someone to blame.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      7 小时前

      our insurance would not cover the operating system if there were ever a security breach, data loss, etc

      This person was lying to you.

      • ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host
        4·
        2 小时前

        Oh I know, whenever he sends out an email for an update to the web-app I react with a “😢” in outlook every time because he’ll just push updates without having anyone test them.

        This is not a software company at all, lately he decided to write his own PDF editor and switch out the one he found on GitHub for it, well the folks in the shop certainly weren’t happy to find out they couldn’t print drawings anymore or that mobile devices had poor compatibility with it.

        • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 小时前

          he’ll just push updates without having anyone test them.

          This person is a clown and shouldn’t be allowed near any production stuff.

          I would bet top dollar that he pushed back on Linux because it scares him.

          • ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host
            1·
            4 小时前

            Unfortunately he and the President and COO are all buddy-buddy so whenever people attempt to provide feedback that can improve their workflow it’s greeted with immediate pushback from the other executives.

            Like I said, not a software company so we only employ 2 developers, he wrote majority of the web-app so he knows all the in’s and out’s and has been with the company for 10+ years now so his job security has been set in stone for quite some time now.

            Something hilarious happened last week where he went on vacation and scheduled an update to occur on the Friday, well sure as shit he didn’t test it and our weekend shift had to endure a whole lot of SQL errors.