Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Nov 2005 09:54 UTC, submitted by anonmyous
OpenBSD "After much digging online for an effective way to stop this pesky application that is highly de-centralised and a big pain to blocked, I finally found a way to do it. It has been working perfectly fine on our corporate network, and we have had no complaints of users being denied access to legitimate web destinations (that are in compliance with our security policy of course)."
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wow
by devurandom on Mon 28th Nov 2005 11:21 UTC
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2005-07-06

I'm impressed when I see the use of free software to reduce the users freedom... what's so bad in skype? In my lab everyone uses it and we find it useful to chat with other collegues in other labs. And nothing bad happens.

RE: wow
by gilboa on Mon 28th Nov 2005 13:12 in reply to "wow"
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2005-07-06

Oh?

Let us assume that I've got a company of 100 employees and I don't want them to /abuse/ a company resource (Internet) to make their own /private/ calls using ICQ/AIM/Skype.
What does freedom of choice has to do with it? Does this freedom gives you the right to abuse the right of others?

Gilboa

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RE[2]: wow
by on Mon 28th Nov 2005 18:09 in reply to "RE: wow"
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It is inherently bad for any company to do that sort of thing. Chances are, they have more or less unmetered bandwidth, so it doesn't really hurt them if people use the net for personal uses a couple minutes a day...

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