Comment by CableNinja

You are definitely not a person i would hire.

You clearly dont understand that you dont get to make those decisions. Your users need software X to do Y as a business requirement. Are you going to tell them fuck off because you dont support windows? Sure, you could, once.

And no manager would ever okay someone writing a fuckton of driver shit or reverse engineering some protocols just so you can be high king and not use a specific OS.

Fact is business needs drive whats used, and you do not get a say in it, you might think you do, but you really dont. You can give information and options but ultimately it wont be your decision and youll support what the business needs you to support, or you wont be with the business anymore.

Yeah i agree vendors suck and so do license related shit, but you arent going to convince management that you could write a superior product AND support it for less than the cost the vendor would charge the company. And yes, this isnt always true, there are obviously some times when it is actually better to do it yourself, or use a foss solution. You still wont win in most cases. Users are going to use the thing they need and if youre blocking them from moving forward, youre more problem than the software youre trying to stop deployment of.