Go ahead and do the scan. There is no ethical reason not to. Employees are there to work not exchange dirty pictures. Make the requesting manager(s) specify, in writing, the criteria for what is and is not "porn." Tell the you need very specific criteria to effectivly locate the offending files.
Hand the results off to management and let them deal with the legal repercussions. Expect PGP to get real popular on your network...
Office compatiblity. Many engineers now have to schedule, e-mail, and perform basic office tasks using M$ software. This is one of the primary reasons UNIX machines are being displaced. Most, if not all of the companies do not like two machines on one engineers desk.
I work for a competitior to PTC and this objection has been raised several times. I am suggesting we make a deal with VMWare to distribute their product as a support package to provide NT compatibility. This means that the Linux version will have to have a measureable advantage over the NT version (you still have to buy an NT license) but for many of our UNIX customers who are wary of NT's unreliability it is a viable alternative.
If Jack has any substantial objections to OSS, where are they? Where is the evidence that OSS is of poorer quality than Hidden Source? The simple fact is, Jack and his dinosaur brethren don't have this evidence. He even admits that OSS is created and served by a pool of serious and talented developers In the absence of real data, look at what poor Jack is reduced to: Trying to claim that "Free Software" is somehow separate from "Open Source," then enlisting the American antipathy toward all things communist by calling us "the crunchy-granola crowd" and "left-of-Leningrad."
This piece isn't even FUD. It is the desperate propaganda of a true believer defending the faith against the onslaught of reality.
Jeez Louise! Lay off this guy willya. He is trying to understand what it is that makes a geek tick and, despite several unexpected setbacks, he is persevering. People like Katz who have the courage to step outside their comfortable little boxes and experiment with new ideas are necessary to carry a message to the outside world that there is another way.
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Go ahead and do the scan. There is no ethical reason not to. Employees are there to work not exchange dirty pictures. Make the requesting manager(s) specify, in writing, the criteria for what is and is not "porn." Tell the you need very specific criteria to effectivly locate the offending files.
Hand the results off to management and let them deal with the legal repercussions. Expect PGP to get real popular on your network...
I downloaded it. I installed it. So far I can run all the crap the big shots want me to run. works for me...
and editorials like this one are evidence of it.
If Jack has any substantial objections to OSS, where are they? Where is the evidence that OSS is of poorer quality than Hidden Source? The simple fact is, Jack and his dinosaur brethren don't have this evidence. He even admits that OSS is created and served by a pool of serious and talented developers In the absence of real data, look at what poor Jack is reduced to: Trying to claim that "Free Software" is somehow separate from "Open Source," then enlisting the American
antipathy toward all things communist by calling us "the crunchy-granola crowd" and "left-of-Leningrad."
This piece isn't even FUD. It is the desperate propaganda of a true believer defending the faith against the onslaught of reality.
Jeez Louise! Lay off this guy willya. He is trying to understand what it is that makes a geek tick and, despite several unexpected setbacks, he is persevering. People like Katz who have the courage to step outside their comfortable little boxes and experiment with new ideas are necessary to carry a message to the outside world that there is another way.