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blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To quote my well known journalist friend after switching from twitter “what’s that? Oh, that open source stuff? Hahaha nah bruh, mastodon is silly”
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 weeks 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.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
We had to fight tooth and nail to get even a few of us able to use Ubuntu on our development machines (even though 90% of our servers are Ubuntu). The old heads in IT were like, “Uhh that open-source stuff? We use Windows for security”. Like wtf?? Lack of cognitive dissonance much? They are completely brainwashed by the old Microsoft FUD
blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The amount of moments of “and therefore?” This stumps me equally with my small child as it does clients. Like, why TF are you saying this thing? How is that your supporting argument. There’s no argument! What’s your fucking thesis statement damnit?!