I came across a Slashdot article last week discussing a community in Sweden’s inability to use the Windows Vista operating system with their Internet Service Provider:
As a Linux user, this situation is entirely frustrating.
- Promoting free and open source software does not mean impeding on the ability for other Operating System’s to “talk” in the same network environment. The linux community I have come to know and respect would not find this behavior to be acceptable in any form.
- These situations bolster claims regarding the zealous nature of Linux administrators, and the ISP in question should be embarrassed by their behavior.
I cannot disagree further with this ISP’s unwillingness to cooperate with users, or microsoft, in order to resolve this situation in an expedited manner.
Linux Administrators on interoperability
Posted by Thomas in Comments on September 4, 2007
I came across a Slashdot article last week discussing a community in Sweden’s inability to use the Windows Vista operating system with their Internet Service Provider:
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/7081/
As a Linux user, this situation is entirely frustrating.
- Promoting free and open source software does not mean impeding on the ability for other Operating System’s to “talk” in the same network environment. The linux community I have come to know and respect would not find this behavior to be acceptable in any form.
- These situations bolster claims regarding the zealous nature of Linux administrators, and the ISP in question should be embarrassed by their behavior.
I cannot disagree further with this ISP’s unwillingness to cooperate with users, or microsoft, in order to resolve this situation in an expedited manner.
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