Yes, this makes it clear that actually, Mozilla had Linux Mint over a barrel and forced their hand. I bet it started with contact from Mozilla's lawyers...

The easy solution to this is to build a business case for whatever change you want and send it to your boss.

You boss then sends it up the ladder until it gets approved and IT makes whatever change you wanted.

It's all about money. It should be easy for you to show how you'd be more productive (in terms of $X) if you had item A at cost $B.

Markets change pretty fast these days. How much time will dealing with that beauraucracy waste? This is one reason to work for a small company; it's surprising that large companies do anything innovative at all, especially if people actually followed this kind of advice.

Ask for forgiveness, never permission. :)

Brain of Patient H.M. Being Sliced, Steamed Live

All these Free Software vs. open source software tiffs can be summed up by:

People's Front of Judea Member: "Listen... the only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean Peoples Front!"

Sadly enough though, he has a point. I'm a devoted vim user but curse it and have to scrounge around for another editor when the filesize gets over a few megs. Sometimes I need to edit file upwards of 100 megs (yes!, don't ask why) and it simply is not possible with vim. Why they haven't dealt with this performance issue is a mystery...