Discrimination based on OS?

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Does your army field telephone conform to the standards forced on AT&T and
> adopted by the rest of the telecommunications industry?  Being Army,
> probably not, but it's a good example because you do have a legal right to
> demand that your local Telco permit the connection of your standards-
> compliant telephone, and this has definitely not caused the cost of
> telephone service to EXPLODE

But my point is that the IT dept. has a standard they're applying, and
that standard is windows or mac.  Now if we can only get TCP/IP,
802.11 protocols and WEP/WPA/etc. regulated as a utility, we're in
business!