I reckon it's fair to say that organisations operate a variety of policies and some of these polices contain grey areas. <br><br>When I decided to dualboot my work laptop, the company we use for our techie stuff reported me. They claimed that it was a security risk :-) The complaint didn't get far though!
<br><br>I'd actually like to switch to Ubuntu entirely but haven't quite been able to get either of my two escape plans (1 - running powerpoint on wine and, 2 - running a VM off my current Windows partitions) to work.
<br><br>Juergen demonstrates an interesting point though. Most people's bosses are pro-windows because it's the 'safe' option. if something goes wrong or if the job doesn't get done then nobody will be blamed for
<span style="font-style: italic;">not </span>Windows. <br><br>The earlier posts in this thread re: OO and Beyrl reminded me that I can't get the two to run together. OO always crashes spectacularly when I try to use it with Beyrl. I generally avoid OO anyway because it's so resource hungry - AbiWord and that spreadsheet package whose name escapes me are a lot faster - shame there's no alternative office suite :-(
<br><br>Have a nice weekend folks<br><br>ta<br><br>j<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 02/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Clifford</b> <<a href="mailto:jason@ukfsn.org">jason@ukfsn.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Juergen Schinker wrote:<br><br>> enough HE said it was unauthorised<br>
<br><a href="http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2007-January/065775.html">http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2007-January/065775.html</a><br><br>"i switched my desktop to linux without asking in advance
<br><br>and now my boss was pissed"<br><br>What else should we take that to mean?<br><br>You clearly did not have authorisation to make the change. Doing so was<br>very unprofessional and, frankly, most companies would call it gross
<br>misconduct and act accordingly.<br><br>> i can install whatever i want on my PC<br><br>Seemingly not according to your boss.<br><br>> coz i'm the Administrator and i also made the Policy<br><br>I rather suspect that it's your boss who makes such decisions.
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