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- oldhick, on 10/10/2007, -16/+186I WOULD probably LISTEN to him.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -11/+101I would AGREE with HIM and be GLAD that my BOSS is INTELLIGENT.
- ninja0, on 10/10/2007, -4/+81is she open source too?
- bewareofmoose, on 10/10/2007, -5/+70That is the worst, funniest response ever.
- Depthfunction, on 10/10/2007, -8/+67This Dilbert cartoon brought to you by the good people at Microsoft.
- Kr4t05, on 10/10/2007, -6/+62I'd point out that I already do. ;)
- snarkleclackers, on 10/10/2007, -2/+54Nice job hiding the [Picture] tag in the description. I was awaiting a blog/article when I clicked the title.
You sneaky little bastard. - thekauf, on 10/10/2007, -7/+58seriously, who posts dilbert strips to digg.com?
- nicktripp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+44The point is that the boss doesn't see any cost associated with using OSS. He's too short-sighted to realize that there are costs behind enterprise software purchases that go beyond just the initial fee. This is not an anti-OSS cartoon. It's an anti-executive cartoon.
Digg shows it's age and inexperience by not "getting" this strip. - geoffpado, on 10/10/2007, -1/+36mklopez, it would appear.
- FriedTurkey, on 10/10/2007, -3/+33I think the people who don't live in the corporate world don't get the joke. The joke is the managers read magazines and learn buzz words and just regurgitate them. Most of the time the tech buzz words are thrown out there and often we have to scramble just to be buzzword compliant.
I had to do an integration using SOAP just because the manager learned the word. It was an internal integration between systems that could of been done 100 different ways with SOAP being one of the worst choices. The integration could have been done in 3 weeks but instead took 6 months.
I know most of the people are students and think open source will fix anything and sometimes it works great in the real world. Sometimes using open source is a terrible idea. - ricperry1, on 10/10/2007, -4/+26WHY do YOU people THINK typing EVERY other WORD in CAPS is NECESSARY?
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Commercial software wastes your time equally. It's a feature.
- davidrools, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20because dilbert is a really good reflection of reality :)
- Chordinator, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19Promise to shoot me dead if I'm applying for a job that requires "Proficiency in Office XP". What is it, data entry? No thanks.
- Tivor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Right on the money.
Dilbert's reaction isn't about "oh no, we have to use OSS now???"
It's about "oh crap, the boss thinks he knows what he's talking about." - Syntaxis, on 10/10/2007, -4/+19Why do you say "bastard"? A bastard killed my entire family! Also, the word "rape" brings happy thoughts to my mind: the killer of my family was raped by a horse.
(Note: I don't think the joke was pointed at you.)
(Note to self: His response - like this - is probably the well known "sarcasm" that doesn't work on the internet.)
(Note: @stealthgear, best comment ever!) - dirtyhand, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16I was thinking of sending the link to my boss.. I just convinced him to switch us to Ruby on Rails from ColdFusion :P
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16If my boss tried to get me to switch to Gimp, I would kick her in the box and shove her.
- Ibanezfoo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Mine already does. Next question please.
- Reziarfg, on 10/10/2007, -7/+20If you followed the Dilbert series, you'd have second thoughts about that statement. ;)
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -10/+23Dilbert is the only comic I read daily. Dilbert rules.
- popltree2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Wouldn't you refer to her has "my wife" instead of "my ***** wife" if this was true? Sounds to me like YOU are the insensitive bastard.
- johnny23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11in an office
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Because comics usually contain text.
- zolf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Get a job
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Go have a cry!
- chazuk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11He has a sun?
Damn! - KibibyteBrain, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Heh, actually, "The Dilbert Principle" a parody of "The Peter Principle", is required reading at most upper tier MBA schools. It basically suggests that middle-management was created to promote people away from causing disasters...exactly what the comic says.
OSS is usually nice, but I like freedom too. Like, I use Linux and FOSS tools for almost everything I do, but I use closed source SlickEdit for editing code now. I find it just increases my efficiency quite a bit over other Free editors. And thats worth the pricetag I think. - schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -7/+15Oh, I see. It's Dilbert's Bizarro World today. :-)
- GirthAgain, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9I did. :) Sorry about your wife, though. :(
- IceZZ, on 10/10/2007, -7/+14>Luckily, I'm in a job where we don't use Microsoft (or any other proprietary products besides our own) at all.
Yeah, that's great.. no transferrable skills. I'll bet that looks great on a resume: "Proficient in Xamthan Plus v0.5 (internal office suite)". Compare to "Proficient in Office XP, including Word and Excel".
Whew, you are lucky! - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Seriously, how hard could it be to use Microsoft Word. We had to learn it in college. (I knew Word before college) I can't say that MS Office is worlds away (different) from openoffice.org's office suite. (except the price is a little different) I think one could migrate between the two rather easily. No real learning curve here guys.
- csrster, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8If my boss said that, I'd assume she'd lost her mind since we already use exclusively open source.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7That assumes you are doing something that would benefit from open source software. But, if you are not doing anything that would benefit from open source software, why use it?
- thecheatah, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Usually my boss tells me to use oss, I usually download it try it out and integrate it into the current application. Sometimes I find the code to be lacking and find my self writing a smiler piece which would take me from a few hours to a few days.
My advice to people: Understand what OSS is, not just use emotions to judge it. If it works use it, if it doesn't then don't. Simple - SteveMax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Only if your time and bandwidth are worthless.
- touch0ph, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6In Soviet Russia, BOSS suggests Open Source to YOU.
- morningmatters, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Why don't more geeks establish companies which specialize in supporting OSS?
- NiX0n, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6find the reply button.
- jarinudom, on 03/31/2008, -17/+22Open source software is only free if your time is worthless.
- mikemx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5gimp is utter pants compared with photoshop. All pro's (not bedroom designers) know this.
- ndurkes, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7have you ever laughed?
- hokie47, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I find much better support with open source than closed source software. The vast majority of the open source community is intelligent and are willing to offer suggestions. Try calling most closed source software companies for help, it is a ***** joke. They don't care and are unwilling to really help you. At least with open source I can normally google the problem and fix it myself.
- finezapa, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5When you're providing your clients with a system that they're paying YOU for --- you want it to be something that you can get outside support on. If its open source --- then chances are, when something goes wrong -- its YOUR fault. YOU get fired.
- skyshock1, on 10/10/2007, -7/+11I would probably offer to wash his car, mow his lawn, take his kids to soccor practice, etc....
Luckily, I'm in a job where we don't use Microsoft (or any other proprietary products besides our own) at all. - deml247, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Reminds me of the dog-ear theory of management. Find the trade rags and dog-ear the pages with the technology or ideas you want to see. Then, when the boss goes to take a crap, he'll no doubt fly to the dog-eared page and read it.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Have you tried to get anyone to fix anything in the proprietary world?
I'd be amazed if you got a response in most cases. - ucg1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If you honestly believe that most proprietary closed-source software is developed by professionals with ten years of experience you are not very familiar with this industry. Most people actually producing code are very young. The older ones move on to management or get bogged down with non-coding tasks that they don't have much time for coding anymore. Then there's the people with 10+ years experience that just suck because either they've always sucked or they couldn't keep up.
- zolf, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Amen, man
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