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  • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@lemmy.mlZen Z
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    1 month ago

    Honest question; why would they? Digital clocks and watches are have been cheaper and more accurate (and as a result more ubiquitous) for many years now. I think there’s a strong argument that analogue clocks are obsolete, and that’s why teens and kids aren’t learning to read them.







  • There’s a very pervasive idea in the corporate and governing world that private industry can be more secure, and that people not having knowledge of a software’s codebase is itself a security feature, not a bug.

    The obvious counterpoint is that open source code has more eyes on it, so vulnerabilities are more likely to be found before they’re exploited. I generally agree with this argument, but it does beg the question: how many people are actually taking the time to vett open source software?

    There’s also legal considerations. If your company leaks a bunch of data due to a Windows bug you can sue Microsoft (or try to, anyway). If the same happens due to a bug in an open source program you probably won’t be able to recover much in damages from the rag-tag gang of free-time developers who made it, assuming you can even figure out who to file suit against in the first place.


  • In two words: Active Directory.

    A robust and well vetted set of tools with reliable GUI interfaces for managing very large numbers of users, their permissions, and the computers from basically anywhere on the network.

    There’s nothing AD does that couldn’t be done in Linux, but nothing even close to the scope and maturity exists yet, as far as I know. Even Apple doesn’t have anything truly comparable.

    Managing a large number of Linux users probably means relying on 3rd party software which isn’t baked in to the OS, which can have reliability issues, or developing user management tools in-house which is pretty hard to justify for most enterprises.