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In article <354899D5.5A31@privatepages.com>,
Privatepages Webmaster  <webmaster@privatepages.com> wrote:
>Bentley wrote:
>> 
>> It's a touchy issue. However, most IBM employees I know carry
>> ThinkPads, and not Toshibas; few Microsoft employees I know use
>> OS/2 or Macs. 
>
>M$ is the largest producer of software for the MacOS.  <g>
>
>> Isn't it reasonable for an employer to expect the employee to have
>> enough faith and loyalty in the product to use it himself?
>
>Reasonable as an expectation, yes -- I would hope people thought
>enough of their own work! -- but when it becomes an enforced rule,
>you've opened a whole new can of worms...
>
>- "You spend most of your waking hours creating these, so you're
>  also going to spend your free time attached to these."

It makes sense to require that things be developed in the environment they
will be run in, to allow maximum opportunity to find bugs.  So far as I
know, no one is saying you can't have one of the other platforms at home.

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