I prefer the government treat me as an adult.
"An adult" being that a persont isn't told what to do by the government or the laws but by the one who pays more.
So, they had to do a research study and report to discover something that anyone that has even just traveled on vacation to a "developing" country (such an euphemism) knows by just looking at the houses, streets, and more.
It is just a common sense-derived knowledge that no one can expect a person that earns less than US$500/month for a family of 5 or 6 is going to pay for software when the only thing they have to do is ask a friend to install it or copy it.
"Developing" countries are called like that precisely because more than 80% of its inhabitants earn US$2 or less a day. "First" world (or "developed") countries have a culture of abundance and shield their population from that kind of knowledge, unless you go about findig out. That's the real reason why you hace so many "cheap" goods, or why else do they assemble things such as phones, music players, clothes and about 99% of consumer goods in "thirld" world countries and not in the US or Europe?
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If you ask me its legacy applications as usually that probably forces most orgs to go dual stack or holds them back, kinda like it keeps IE6 and that 3270 terminal emulator on the desktop.
As I see, I'm partially with you: not that the legacy apps themselves are the ones holding back, it is the functionality provided by such apps and the cost of reproducing that funtionality in newer and (hopefully) better apps that can hold back both legacy hardware, software and protocols
Please remember that management (the finance and accounting departments that really have control of the money and by way of that control the companies) needs a reason to change over expressed in terms of returns, being that savings in operating costs or direct benefits produced by such a project.
My boss would ask (more or less what we would understand after all the manage-speak): How much will that "IPV6 Migration" project save or return?
That is the real cause of not having already moved to IPV6, there is no clear way to convice management to spend the resources (call it money, time, personnel or whatever) in doing it.
Pretty sure a DoD system will not mount a USB drive and will alert security to the fact it was attempted. deleted
I believe they have software in place for that. We do and we are in the "third world".
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.