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Sunny |
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Computing Subversive's Bill of Rights |
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http://sunnyinsight.blogspot.com/2008/10/computing-subversives-bill-of-rights.html
Excerpt from the above blog post is below. I'm looking for feedback
and thoughts from the HCI community.
"Have you ever been told by an employer or academic institution that
you MUST only use a specific hardware, operating system, or software
solution? The reasons given are manifold and sometimes even appear
rational and reasonable. Justifications that I have heard are: "We
only want to support one system." "It is not allowed to use
unsupported systems." "We cannot pay for support for any other
system." "We don't know how to administer and support that system."
"We don't know how secure the operating system that you want to use
is." "There is no vendor contract or support for that software." "It
might be spyware/malware/freeware/open-source." "It must be approved
first." "We have an exclusive contract with a company that only
provides their craptastic solution and the contract doesn't allow us
to use other systems."
Even though the people carrying out the policy decisions of your
company have every reason to suspect that your unsupported solution
may be more secure, robust, or proficient than what they are using,
they don't defend you...."
Respectfully,
Sunny
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Sunny |
Wed, 8 Oct 2008, 5:55 pm |
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