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bentley@access4.digex.net (Bentley) wrote:
>Harbir Singh (harbir@vt.edu) said something like:

>: I do not accept that automotive companies should be able to dictate what
>: their employees drive. If I worked for a car company, it would be enough
>: that I dedicate most of my waking life to it, that it benefits from my
>: intellect (such as it is) and hard work, that I owe it loyalty and
>: allegiance. They have no business expecting me to drive a particular car
>: unless they pay for it and don't tell me what to drive with my own money.

>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. Isn't
>it reasonable for an employer to expect the employee to have enough faith
>and loyalty in the product to use it himself?

My experience with HP engineers is that they cary HP laptops, but that
the computers were provided for free.  That may be the case with some
of the others.  They don't really encourage putchase of an HP system
among their employees.

The MS employees I know are more likely to not be running a MS OS than
the general public.  Why?  Because they are computer geeks and more
likely to play with alternative OSs, like OS/2 and UNIX/LINUX than the
general public.

Few people at the Chevy dealership I was at drove Chevys.

Marc
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