• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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    8 hours ago

    Reminds me of a meeting my co-worker and I had with the IT staff of a company that is a customer using research instruments in our facility. The meeting was to ask us to enable data synchronization through SharePoint. (We’re a Linux shop.) We asked what the issue was with getting their data files with SFTP. They said, “It’s open source.”

    Then, a few beats of silence as it sinks in for us that there is no next step in the chain of logic. That is the totality of their objection.

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      5 hours ago

      Ok so they knew enough about software to use open source correctly in a sentence, but could not even list one reason why they didn’t want to use it.