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On Friday 15 November 2002 11:02, Peter Nixon wrote:
No. I am saying that you get provided with a toolset that is paid for by the company. If they are not appropriate then you need to make the company understand why. Anyway, Its friday arvo and I am not going to get into TCO of computer systems etc etc.
I get what you are saying. If it were me, I might try openly telling them that I think Linux might have benefits in my work and I would like permission to experiment with it in the work environment, and could I have a Linux partition on the machine, while still leaving the standard company installation intact on another partition. If he presented his case reasonably and non-combatively, maybe they would surprise him by agreeing to it. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************