Coredump

Got a new vocation: that of plying open source software at the workplace.

This is my personal contribution to the open source movement. Apart from using open source, I want to “push” others into using it. In my former workplace, I made it a network policy before I left that all workstations connected to the net use Firefox and Thunderbird for web and email, respectively. There was resistance, of course, but eventually, some of them saw the light, so to speak. With the current rash of holes in IE, they had no choice but look for alternatives.

Now, here in my new work, I’ve surreptiously placed Firefox in selected workstations. They wouldn’t know the difference, really, because for them, it’s all the same: so long as they can access the internet, even if it was a damned monkey hanging by its tail doing the connection for them, they’ll grab it.

For now, Firefox will do. Later, I’ll be putting in OpenOffice.org. Can’t wait.

(So the allusion in the title didn’t actually stick. So what? I liked the title, suits me fine.)