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I know 4 years is ages in Internet time, but didn't it make international news when they changed the policy from "Use whatever platform you want" to "Use whatev
by patio11 12y ago
I know 4 years is ages in Internet time, but didn't it make international news when they changed the policy from "Use whatever platform you want" to "Use whatever platform you want as long as it isn't the one that corporate IT is basically built to manage."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a.html#axzz3GrMQOfkU http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab4...
- Already__Taken 12y agoI don't understand how you can say that and turn around to use another american company you still can view the source code for. I assume that's the reason anyway.
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- melling 12y agoI was hoping that Google will be able to push Linux into the mainstream. One of the big problems with Linux is getting commercial software. For example, getting Photoshop and Illustrator working natively on Linux would be a big win.
- Igglyboo 12y agoGoogle actually maintains their own fork of Ubuntu for internal use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu
- VikingCoder 12y ago> the one that corporate IT is basically built to manage Hah! The Venn diagram depicting people who WANT to do corporate IT at Google, and the people who WANT to use Windows in corporate IT has a pretty small overlap, I think. I mean, step one, "corporate IT" wants everyone to use Office, and Sharepoint, and then SAP... Yeah, that's just NOT going to happen at Google.