[BBLISA] Desktop policies and UNIX-ish operating systems

[Patrick Cable]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Michael Sprague <mfs at komerex.com> wrote:
> Just call them all UNIX.  The powers that be @ $WORK probably won't know
> or care about the technical distinctions.

It's not about the powers that be at $WORK. It's about what the end
users interpret.
The powers that be know the end users can be quite semantic, and want
to ensure the correct phrasing is used.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:34 PM, seph <seph at directionless.org> wrote:
> I'd ask a different question -- How are your policies for these machines
> different than your policies for other desktops? (ie: why are you
> special casing windows?)

It's not a matter of windows being "special cased" -- windows (and
osx) have already been dealt with policy wise.

-pc