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On 04/04/2015 13:35, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> What a revelation about at least a minority of Gentoo users ! |
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>> -- philosophers of science + math, besides well-trained physicists. |
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> I think at least half of us on the Council have degrees in the |
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> physical sciences. |
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> I work mostly with scientists and I have to say that in the last 10 |
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> years the embrace of FOSS by scientists has been considerable. Who |
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> wants to beg the boss for money and with IT for support of SAS when |
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> you can just download R and install it yourself, and so on? Of |
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> course, it tends to also lead to a bit of a mess when that little tool |
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> that was thrown together ends up being depended upon by an entire |
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> department and isn't up to it. |
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So it's not any different to how enterprise works then? Like the |
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cobbled-together mush of perl and bash (that does emerge over ssh in a |
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for loop) becomes the one critical app in all of IT that the ISO-9000 |
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and something cert totally depends on? I've written such perl and bash |
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myself... |
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I recently had the pleasure of converting a small version of that to |
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Ansible. That was fun. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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