Resolved: Unix disrupts organizations by flattening hierarchies
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| Be it resolved that properly managed Unix infrastructures
| disrupt organizations by reducing the importance of hierarchal
| reporting relationships as information conduits in an
| organization.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=823
Your Data, Their Format
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| This is, I suspect, why companies like Microsoft call Linux "un-American"
| and "a cancer." Corporations don't like sharing or playing nice, and
| that's exactly what Linux and the open-source community do. They share
| their software with everyone, even corporations, and you can share your
| work with anyone too, not just those people who are using the same
| version of the same software that you're using. There's no such thing
| as digital-restrictions management on a Linux box, and it won't save
| anything to a proprietary file format unless you tell it to. For
| instance, this essay can be read, exactly as I formatted it, on
| any version of any word processor. That's what open formats,
| protocols, and codecs can do, and that's why the computing industry
| avoids them. They just don't give them a way to hold your data
| hostage and force you to upgrade; and that, they think, is horrible.
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http://notphilsnotions.blogspot.com/2007/04/your-data-their-format.html
Related:
Your data or your life
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| As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare
| is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes.
| When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software
| lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients? information.
|
| This situation is completely unconscionable. There can be no truly
| open doctor-patient relationship when an unrelated third party is the
| de facto owner of and gatekeeper to all related data.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1709
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