Just spotted this dreadful logo for Le Web 3:
I know this often happens in body text when an over-enthusiastic ‘smart quotes’ feature in a word processor mistakes the apostrophe for an opening quotation mark, but someone really should have noticed it in a logo.
The other day I was listening to someone speaking about the rollout of an open source web-filtering solution to 20,000 pupils in the Yorkshire and Humber area. A mildly interesting story in itself, and a nice win for the OSS community, but it got me thinking.
When it comes to Internet access, Why do some companies literally treat their employees like children?
One of the questions for the panel at Wednesday’s Open Source event at BT Centre concerned the fact that most of the company doesn’t have a connection to the Internet; just proxied web access. Also, installing any software not on a relatively small approved list is forbidden.
“Given that we don’t have the Internet or any software, how are we supposed to work with Open Source?”
Doc Searls‘s response:
“The current policy is freaking insane! It’s utterly inconsistent with BT’s strategy, and I can’t understand why anyone would want to come and work here… Maybe we ought to go and storm the head office or something.”
[tags]policy, internet, open source, doc searls[/tags]