Mael: Yes.
Robert: Yes.
Steelneck: We are a large organization with many users. If all of them had root-control and could install whatever they liked, that would be a problem.
We have a form with which we can request non-standard software should we want to, but for various reasons this causes inconveniences - we don't get support, and we have to do version control and updates ourselves. If we freely were to choose OS on the end-user terminals, then also we'd be locked out of the intranet. So for instance, we have Ubuntu as an option on the laptops that each office can get exactly one (1) of, but if one opts for the Ubuntu-installation rather than the standard Windows installation (which has to be done by special request to begin with), one is not able to connect to the intranet or use the normal personal information manager/e-mail client, which is an inconvenience.
Mael: Yes.
Robert: Yes.
Steelneck: We are a large organization with many users. If all of them had root-control and could install whatever they liked, that would be a problem.
We have a form with which we can request non-standard software should we want to, but for various reasons this causes inconveniences - we don't get support, and we have to do version control and updates ourselves. If we freely were to choose OS on the end-user terminals, then also we'd be locked out of the intranet. So for instance, we have Ubuntu as an option on the laptops that each office can get exactly one (1) of, but if one opts for the Ubuntu-installation rather than the standard Windows installation (which has to be done by special request to begin with), one is not able to connect to the intranet or use the normal personal information manager/e-mail client, which is an inconvenience.