I guess it could work as long as every employee has their own laptop and the "desk" are an eclectic collection of tables and chairs, sofas, bean bags, floor mats, white boards, etc... Which may be rearranged and moved about at will.
It's going to take a lot more floorspace than going with assigned desks but it could work quite well.

When corporations cannot move people to the jobs, they'll move the jobs to the people. With improvements to telecommunications, does anyone really believe that IT work must be done from a specific location on the planet?

Ok my friend's case, it was already installed. Given his machines hardware problems at the time and that he was skint, we didn't poke at what was working...

It had issues. The SIQ hang issues was one which was never really resolved satisfactorily but then it's not uncommon today for Mac OS to give me the spinning beach ball of doom because it also has a similar SIQ hang, 15+ years later.

"hilariously robust"
Yep, it sure was. This was back in 1996 when a friend's computer started to have random crashing problems with Windows. He couldn't afford to buy new RAM but OS/2 was somehow able to fence off the bad memory and continue to work reliably. Kinda funny that IBM effectively gave away OS/2 free on a magazine cover disk - applying a fixpack removed the modifications that IBM did to the coverdisc version.

It seems to create weird artifacts around the edges of hair and ears.

The usual argument against stopping spoofing is that the average person won't answer the calls from a cold caller telemarketers.
Sadly, organisations like the Direct Marketers Association have more political clout than consumer protection advocates

Put an easily removable label over the Apple logo and sell them as a Crabapple PC?

Can they reskin their work to be for Star Wreck?

Does this mean that "git" may be renamed in the near future?

The missing mass...

Be honest...
It's all AOL CDROMs, isn't it?

I'd be surprised if you could demonstrate the same thing for embedded devices not designed to be modified or updated by users -- no matter their complexity.

I was personally very upset when Motorola refused to provide me a software update for a device, designed for both long-term and short-term use!

It was an SN74LS139N Motorola Dual Decoder 2-4 Line Plastic TTL chip.

How dare they deny me software updates for this chip containing two inverters and four AND gates!

I don't give a damn that they designed it for embedded use, I should be able to update the software running on it!

Right?

I quote Rush too:

A modern day warrior
Mean, mean stride
Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride

Obviously the band has other songs, but Tom Sawyer is just a classic.

I blame increasing dental visits.

The NHS just had an anniversary that was highly publicized, and it's clear people are finally doing something about their manibles, maxilla, and teeth, all of which would throw this sort of thing off.