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[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to maintain an excel database along with an ecosystem of internal engineering tools in excel/vba. I worked in a vault, and one day I asked my isso if I could get python on some of the machines in my lab. A full 1.5 years later they got back to me that some security office was finally ready to consider my request and sent me a bunch of paperwork to fill out to justify why I needed python. And separate copies for each individual library I wanted to come with it. Needless to say I went on continuing to maintain my excel database and toolkit

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

some businesses just deserve to die, and are actively working towards it

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of companies are like this.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'd hazard it's most companies.