The Register tells us of a panel session at this week's EclipseCon that reveals just how panicked some management bods are about Open Source software, and the lengths they have gone to in order to try to ban use of it.As clueless managers can't look out of the vendor lock in world - something that the likes of Microsoft rely on - OpenLogic's Stormy Peters (great name that) outlined just how far one of their customers went:
"We had a customer with a policy of no open source. They ended up blocking SourceForge.net, but people started downloading at home on thumb drives. The company then started saying 'no thumb drives'. You can't keep this up!"How could any developer with a modicum of pride in their work stay employed at such a firm?
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