Basically title. Do you know of any companies that use desktop Linux?

I can think of two in my area in Brisbane - Adfinis and Red Hat. Both have a pretty small presence here from what I last heard (several employees each).

My employer allows the Linux team to use Linux but it’s discouraged and our lives are made somewhat difficult.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    5·
    3 months ago

    What an awful take. “Free as in freedom” includes not being docked pay for your software choices.

    • delirious_owl
      11·
      3 months ago

      Right, well, free means free. Free software users wouldn’t get docked. Non-free software users would.

      • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
        3·
        3 months ago

        I said free as in freedom, not free as in gratis.

        But since you want to double down on this bad idea, let me explain why it’s shit:

        If your employer expects you to use tools to do your job, they should pay for those tools if they cost something. Passing off operational expenses to the employees that use more expensive tools is hideously anti-worker, and it’s not even funny as a joke.

        Employers should pay for the tools used to run their businesses, and you should learn what the “free” in “free open source software” means, because it’s not about money.

        • delirious_owl
          11·
          3 months ago

          There are no tools that you need to pay for that are not free as gratis or libre.

          But I would be OK with only charging for software that’s not libre. So software thats gratis but not libre doesn’t dock you, since you’re contributing to something good that helps the world