Should employers stop blogging?

Bloggers, please leave me your comments on the following!

1. Are you able or allowed to do facebook/blogging/wikis during work hours?
2. Do you think organizations should prevent internet access to blogs/wikis/facebook?
3. Do you think facebook/blogs/wikis assist organizations in better knowledge management?
4. Should organizations allow employees to blog/wiki/facebook during work hours?
5. Approximately how many hours of your working day are spent blogging/facebook/wikis?
6. Are you a blogger or a manager?

Thank you!

If you’re wondering: I need to determine exactly this now in developing policies and a proxy server.

I h8 McAfe

We just recently migrated to the latest McAfee Enterprise software solution for my organization, on recommendation of the internal auditors.  His recommendation convinced me as I was not in the mood for another run of Symantec’s thriller, ver11.  I thought I’ll save myself the “frustration” I went throught with Symantec.  

Excitingly, I have recieved my McAfee pakage.  At first I was amazed by not recieving a printed manual and thought; ooh, so this is so trouble free, a printed manual isn’t even necessary.  I’ll look at the electronic documents.

Who pay OSS developers?

Lunduke wrote 2 compelling blogs ( 1 & 2) on the funding of Open Source Software (OSS).  As he rightly says, OSS developers have to eat.  Part of the profit of proprietary software ould be e to fund the R & D of software.  

But, does it really cost that much.  Is it not that the profit from software was what made Bill Gates one of the richest individuals on earth?  And come to think of it, how much R & D gone into Millenium and Vista if those 2 was, IMHO, 2 disastrous editions of Windows?  

That brings anohter question.  How much profit is ethical?  

Lunduke is right in saying that funding comes from big enterprises and funding from proprietary software companies.  Another blogger also suggests that funding comes from hardware manufacturers like Intel.

Mark Shuttleworth hopes that it will never come down to advertising!  He suggests (or is it hope) that sufficient funding will come from add-on services, maybe like Red Hat.

Is there a future for OSS developers?  If the proprietary software companies (and hardware companies) funds OSS, is it possible for porporietary software to one day, become part of OSS?  Will we have one day, WIndows’ source code to change, share and distribute “SuSE Win, Gentoo Win” etc?  Obviously, the staibility of Windows will be better – it seems to me as if Microsoft can only win by this!

blog geskuif

ek kan nie onthou hoe dit gekom het dat my blog thinux geword het nie; maar ek het vandag eers ontdek dat ek meer as een blog op ‘n “account” kan hê; én ekkedink was nog beskikbaar op wordpress. 

so, nou skuif hierdie blog (thinux) na ekkedink, en thinux gaan ‘n blog word van die IT goeters waarmee ek van dag tot dag worstel; soos ITIL, Cobitt, XP, Vista, BSODs, Windows services, error messages, IE6, 7, 8, upgrade en downgrade, Windows 8 beta, linux en al die lekker dinge.  hierdie naam was in elk geval my linux naam wat ek dikwels gebruik het as ek linux installeer.

vir ek dink, daarom is ek (of is dit soms ek is, daarom dink ek ), gaan voortaan na ekkedink.wordpress.com, en verander julle “blog roll” dienooreenkomstig asb.

jammer vir die ongerief!