Re: Operating systems are not religions (you fools)

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 16:39 -0700, e71p@yahoo.com wrote:
> I had an interview today where I was told that, because I had
> coded so much for Unix/Linux and only a couple years for Windows
> that I had to "change [my] religion" to Windows. I said, in
> as polite a tone as possible, "well it's not really a religion,
> it's just an OS; and I'm pretty much agnostic about OSes".

Well, I've been at a job interview...

The guy there explained what I'd do (manage lots of proprietary
software) and a shady method of payment.

When I said I wasn't interested, after all, he asked if what scared me
was the shady method, and I replied I was ok with it, what I couldn't
tolerate was to deal with all that proprietary software they had.

I wonder if he noticed that in my resume was [intentionally] absent the
knowledge of Windows (only GNU/Linux and OpenBSD), and if the keyphrase:
Expert in Free Software did ring any bells at all.

I bet my answer was susrprising enough :) he seemed interested, but
refusing because of the software they use must've been a shock!!!!!

Rui

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